Andrzej \u017bu\u0142awski<\/span><\/b> will be presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award to Polish Director with Unique Visual Sensitivity<\/b> at this year’s Festival. Members of the 2008 Plus Camerimage Award Committee decided to honour one the most remarkable and at the same time controversial Polish directors, who produced most of his films abroad. Previously, the award was received by Roman Pola\u0144ski<\/b> during the 2007 Plus Camerimage Festival. <\/p>\n He made his debut as an assistant to Andrzej Wajda in Samson<\/span><\/b>, Love at Twenty<\/span><\/b> and Popio\u0142y<\/span><\/b>. His first short films, The Story of Triumphant Love<\/span><\/b> and Pavoncello<\/span><\/b>, were produced for Polish television in 1967. Meanwhile he published film reviews in the weekly “Film” and the monthly “Kino”, as well as poetry in “Wsp\u00f3\u0142czesno\u015b\u0107”. In addition, he published a novel, but it was immediately withdrawn by the censors. In 1971 he made his debut feature film based on the script, which was written in collaboration with his father, entitled Trzecia cz\u0119\u015b\u0107 nocy<\/span><\/b>. The visionary and original film, shocking in its explicitness and the expressive acting of Ma\u0142gorzata Braunek<\/b>, excited widely disparate comments in the artist’s country, whereas abroad critics recognised \u017bu\u0142awski’s talent and pointed to his unusual inventivenss and eccentricity. When his successive film Diabe\u0142<\/span><\/b> (1972) was censored, \u017bu\u0142awski decided to move to France, where he spent his youth and studied direction and political science. In France he shot The Most Important Thing: Love<\/span><\/b> starring Romy Schneider<\/b> and Klaus Kinski<\/b>. Afterwards he returned to Poland to carry out his most ambitious project, SF superproduction Na srebrnym globie<\/span><\/b>. After two years of work, the PRL authorities ordered that the filming be stopped, as a result \u017bu\u0142awski left Poland again. <\/p>\n In 1980 he filmed Possession<\/span><\/b> with Isabelle Adjani<\/b>, considered to be the most outstanding work in his cinematic oeuvre. Films produced in the 80’s, in the majority of which he cast Sophie Marceau<\/b>, were incessantly giving him publicity, dividing the audience and critics into devotees and vehement objectors to his demanding and controversial style. \u017bu\u0142awski’s last film, Fidelity<\/span><\/b> (2000), is counted among his superlative artistic accomplishments. <\/p>\n \u017bu\u0142awski\u2019s artistic output includes 12 feature films altogether, the best part of which has been critically acknowledged as brilliant, as well as 20 books, deemed by wordsmiths intellectually sophisticated. His international renown, however, came with the films whose original, expressive style stirs extreme emotions in the spectators. The artist uses various artistic means, defying all norms and conventions. Each of his stories revolves around a female character endowed with the status of a medium. In the recently published in-depth interview the director revealed the sources of his inspiration, motivation and … torture, which, as he admitted, are the prime movers of his films. \u017bu\u0142awski is an eminent figure in the contemporary cinema, who for years has been struggling with his maladaptation to the surrounding reality. It is his swim against the tide that brought him the most outstanding results. Owing to films such as Trzecia cz\u0119\u015b\u0107 nocy<\/span><\/b>, Diabe\u0142<\/span><\/b> or Possession<\/span><\/b>, film critics regarded him as a revelation.<\/b><\/p>\n Selected filmography: <\/p>\n 2000: Fid\u00e9lit\u00e9, La (Fidelity) <\/span> So far, Andrzej \u017bu\u0142awski has been honoured at the 2002 Camerimage Festival with the Duo Award for his joint work with cinematographer Andrzej J. Jaroszewicz on the greater part of his films (Szamanka<\/span>, Blue Note<\/span>, Boris Godunov<\/span>, The Silver Globe<\/span>, Diabe\u0142<\/span>). In 1996 \u017bu\u0142awski chaired the Jury of the Camerimage Feature Films Competition. <\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Andrzej \u017bu\u0142awski will be presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award to Polish Director with Unique Visual Sensitivity at this year’s…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wiadomosci-plus-camerimage-2008"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.camerimage.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9608"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.camerimage.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.camerimage.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.camerimage.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.camerimage.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.camerimage.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.camerimage.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.camerimage.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.camerimage.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Klaus Kinsky, That Most Important Thing: Love<\/i> (1975)<\/p>\n
Isabelle Adjani, Possession<\/i> (1981)<\/p>\n
Sophie Marceau, Fidelity<\/i> (2000)<\/p>\n
1996: Szamanka <\/span>
1990: Note bleue, La (Blue Note)<\/span>
1989: Boris Godounov (Boris Godunov) <\/span>
1989: Mes nuits sont plus belles que vos Tours (My Nights Are More Beautiful Than Your Days)<\/span>
1985: L’ Amour braque<\/span>
1984: La Femme publique <\/span>
1981: Possession <\/span>
1976: Na srebrnym globie (The Silver Globe) <\/span>
1975: L’ Important c’est d’aimer (The Most Important Thing: Love)<\/span>
1972: Diabe\u0142 <\/span>
1971: Trzecia cz\u0119\u015b\u0107 nocy<\/span><\/p>\n