Rent Blind Chance (1981)
3.6 of 5 from 103 ratings
2h 3min
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- Synopsis:
Poland, in the politically turbulent late 1970's: Witek (Boguslaw Linda) is running to catch a train. From this banal event, Krzysztof Kieslowski imagines three different possible outcomes in the young man's life. In the first scenario, Witek catches the train on which he meets some hard line communists and joins the party. In the second, as Witek runs for the train, his path is blocked by a ticket inspector; the ensuing struggle leads to his arrest and subsequent involvement in the political underground. In the final scenario, Witek misses the train and he returns to the medical studies that he intended to abandon. He falls in love with a female student, gets married and lives a quiet life as a doctor, showing little interest in politics. - Actors:
- Boguslaw Linda, Tadeusz Lomnicki, Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Boguslawa Pawelec, Marzena Trybala, Jacek Borkowski, Jacek Sas-Uhrynowski, Adam Ferency, Irena Byrska, Monika Gozdzik, Zygmunt Hübner, Krzysztof Kalczynski, Aleksander Mikolajczak, Kazimiera Nogajówna, Jolanta Nowinska, Jerzy Stuhr, Krzysztof Zaleski
- Directors:
- Krzysztof Kieslowski
- Producers:
- Jacek Szeligowski
- Writers:
- Krzysztof Kieslowski
- Aka:
- Przypadek
- Studio:
- Artificial Eye Film Company Ltd.
- Genres:
- Classics, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
- Collections:
- New waves of Polish Cinema, What to watch by country
- Countries:
- Poland
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 20/04/2020
- Run Time:
- 123 minutes
- Languages:
- Polish Dolby Digital 1.0
- Subtitles:
- English
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.66:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Brand new audio commentary on 'Blind Chance' by film historian Michael Brooke
- Moral and Martial Anxieties, a brand new discussion with Michael Brooke, exploring the brief and remarkable Polish film renaissance of the turn of the 1980's
- Brand new introductions by scholar and critic Micha Oleszczyk
- Micha Oleszczyk looks through archive materials
- Archival interviews with filmmakers Agnieska Holland and Krzysztof Zanussi, cinematographers Slawomir Idziak and Jacek Petrycki, actress Grazyna Szapoloska, sound designer Michal Zarnecki, critic Annette Insdorf and Kie lowski collaborator Irena Strazakowska
- Three short films by Kie lowski: Talking Heads (1980), Concert of Requests (1995) and The Office (1995)
- Workshop Exercises, a 1987 short film by Marcel Lonzinski
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Reviews (2) of Blind Chance
Dull / Not Dull - Blind Chance review by JG
'Blind Chance' is actually quite dull. And quite interesting. The structure of the film - 3 short(ish) sections, each the result of the main character's missing or catching a train - lends a kind of spurious interest to rather tedious tales of unconvincing love, minor politics and unsensational imprisonment. But there's something here that is hard to pin down : a kind of director's intelligence that makes things hard to dismiss. The acting is perfect. Human observation is immaculate. The ending (though predictable 2 minutes from the end) is gasp-making. And the film 'stays with you' in an unexpected way. Perhaps the anti-Hollywood approach - slow, meticulous, self-consciously structured, even dull - is rewarding in itself.
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Dire filmmaking that thrilled 70s audiences - Blind Chance review by SF
Why is Kieslowski considered a great director? On the basis of this film, you'd be hard pressed to answer. Dreary, pretentious, dry, sort of the film version of a post-modern dissertation at an ex-Poly.
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