Afterimages

  • 2014


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Positive Reviews 33
Negative reviews 5
Average Rating 3.7/5
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2.0
Afterimage suffers from a clunky script and an overdetermined formal palette. Av Club
3.8
How will he live Hes told that under Communism those who dont work dont eat. Rogerebert
4.5
This may be true to the historical record, but it doesnt make for very compelling drama. Variety
3.8
Andrzej Wajdas film is a lean, unwavering look at the effects of artistic idealism in the face of fascist doctrine.
4.5
A remarkably neat, correct, and historically faithful picture, Wajdas passionate veneration for Strzeminski clearly led to a rather didactic approach. Screen Daily
4.5
Afterimage finds him in starchy autumnal form, taking potshots at a familiar enemy. The Hollywood Reporter
4.5
Afterimage feels vividly connected to the Polish auteurs beginnings, yet also acts as the kind of haunting close that sums up a life.
3.8
In less capable hands, Afterimage may be a mawkish story of against all odds historical uplift. The Globe And Mail
3.5
An intense biopicture about a Polish avant garde painter persecuted by the Communist government. Spirituality And Practice
4.5
Director and co writer Andrzej Wajdas story is a vise that inexorably tightens on the artist as he loses his job, his gallery, and the professional cr .. Village Voice
4.2
A brilliant, straightforward and passionate homage biopic from one dissident Polish artist to another. Sover
4.5
Andrzej Wajda, one of Polands greatest filmmakers, closed out his long career with this unusually personal and despairing biopic of the avant garde pa .. Chicago Reader
2.0
Each fresh outrage perpetrated against Strzeminski is recorded with a thudding finality. Cs Monitor
4.5
It is an angry, vivid, passionate film, and cinema is worse off now that Wajda one of the truly towering greats of the form has passed away. Film Inquiry
3.0
Impeccably photographed by Pawel Edelman (The Pianist, Ray), Afterimage is a well told story that eschews any sort of abstraction or ambiguity. Flim Threet
2.0
Uncompromisingly sympathetic, Wajdas final feature is a work of grounded humanity free from melodrama. The Film Stage
3.0
Wise beyond her years, has a curt, verging on antagonistic relationship with her old man, but shes a ray of light in an otherwise grave endeavour. Cine Vue
3.5
Afterimage exudes an energy and clarity that elevate it above its familiar cold war setting, to serve as a worthy statement from a true master of the .. Scmp
3.1
The Commune offers nothing thats surprising or genuinely engrossing, and the decent performances fail to compensate for the overstuffed and undercooke .. Nyc Movie Guru
1.5
The chain smoking doesnt help, but it goes with the self abnegation that Wajda portrays as a kind of stubborn saintliness. Straight
4.5
Wajda is so determined to depict his hero as a man of iron that his every pronouncement comes freighted with metaphorical significance. Film Comment
3.0
The artist, unwilling to capitulate to the state demands, cant work anymore as an artist. Dennis Schwartz Reviews
3.0
The film could bear a smidgen more exposition hither and yon for those not familiar with the history: Strzemiskis somewhat cold relationship with his .. Under The Radar Mag
3.8
Director Kevan Funk presents an occasionally powerful, if slow moving and overlong meditation on violence and toxic masculinity. Seattle Times
1.5
Since Strzeminski, with his louche air of garret painting defiance, might as well be wearing a sandwich board reading Art for Arts Sake, this doesnt p .. Film Journal International ..
4.5
A conventional film in its structure, analysis of characters and form, but invaluable epilogue to a fundamental career in the history of cinema. El Pais (Spain)
4.5
Afterimage becomes a fitting capstone to a remarkable career that spanned from the 1950s into the 21st Century. Denerstein Unleashed Blog ..
2.5
A grim portrait recounting the deadening effects of the Soviet regime on creative freedoms, the vicarious toll of successive small embarrassments and .. Willamette Week
4.5
Still, I cant help thinking theres a splendid 10 day festival to be carved out of this unfocused sprawl. Seattle Weekly
4.5
Mercader says, more or less, You dont believe that any more than I do. World Socialist Web Site
3.5
AFTERIMAGE is a dramatization of how even a very strong personality can be ground down between the stones of clashing political ideologies. Leepers Us
3.5
Andrzej Wajda shares testament with the (bold) artist Strzemiski.
4.5
The movie is unsparing in depicting Strzemiskis death by humiliation. Ny Books
3.0
As a realist film constructed through continuity editing, Afterimage is formally conservative. Four Three Film
4.5
... it is famous Polish actor Boguslaw Linda who dazzles with his hidden volcano of emotion. Easy Reader News
3.1
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4.5
This portrait of an aging artist engages with and refuses the idea that artistic and social isolation is anything but selfish. Vaguev Is Ages
5.0
It seems apropos that Afterimage is Wajdas last film as it makes him ever present after death. Ancho Rage Press
4.5
Did this really happen It doesnt matter when you are creating a higher truth. Counter Punch



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