Fresh
The editing, at once jarring and exhilarating, is as revolutionary in its own way as that of Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless.
Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader
Overview
Film chronicles a decade in the life of a young physics student whose absolute faith in the primacy of rationality and science is shaken by tragedy and affairs of the heart.
Director and cast
- Krzysztof Zanussi Director
- Stanisław Latałło as Franciszek Retman
- Małgorzata Pritulak as Malgorzata
- Monika Dzienisiewicz-Olbrychska as Agnieszka
- Jan Skotnicki as Patient
- Edward Żebrowski as Physician
- Wlodzimierz Zonn as University Dean
- Bogdan Mielnik as Bogdan Mielnik
- Wladyslaw Turski as Władysław Turski
- Wlodzimierz Zawadzki as Assistant
- Lukasz Turski Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
80%
Tomatometer
Fresh
The rapid editing and self-conscious technique is sometimes irritating, but more often proves sufficiently provocative to hold attention.
Chris Petit, Time Out
Rotten
Although Zanussi's techniques, which mix fiction with documentary footage, are intelligent, Illumination manages to become increasingly banal as its hero zeroes in on compromise: marriage, fatherhood, the acceptance of his own mortality.
Vincent Canby, New York Times
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