In 1961, Stanislaw Rozewicz created the novella film "Birth Certificate" in cooperation with his brother, Taduesz Rozewicz as screenwriter. Such brother tandems are rare in the history of film but aside from family ties, Stanislaw (born in 1924) and Taduesz (born in 1921) were mutually bound by their love for the cinema. They were born and grew up in Radomsk, a small town which had "its madmen and its saints" and most importanly, the "Kinema" cinema, as Stanislaw recalls: for him cinema is "heaven, the whole world, enchantment". Tadeusz says he considers cinema both a charming market stall and a mysterious temple. "All this savage land has always attracted and fascinated me," he says. "I am devoured by cinema and I devour cinema; I'm a cinema eater." But Taduesz Rozewicz, an eminent writer, admits this unique form of cooperation was a problem to him: "It is the presence of the other person not only in the process of writing, but at its very core, which is inserperable for me from absolute solitude." Some scenes the brothers wrote together; others were created by the writer himself, following discussions with the director. But from the perspective of time, it is "Birth Certificate", rather than "Echo" or "The Wicked Gate", that Taduesz describes as his most intimate film. This is understandable. The tradgey from September 1939 in Poland was for the Rozewicz brothers their personal "birth certificate". When working on the film, the director said "This time it is all about shaking off, getting rid of the psychological burden which the war was for all of us. ... Cooperation with my brother was in this case easier, as we share many war memories. We wanted to show to adult viewers a picture of war as seen by a child. ... In reality, it is the adults who created the real world of massacres. Children beheld the horrors coming back to life, exhumed from underneath the ground, overwhelming the earth."
The principle of composition of "Birth Certificate" is not obvious. When watching a novella film, we tend to think in terms of traditional theatre. We expect that a miniature story will finish with a sharp point; the three film novellas in Rozewicz's work lack this feature. We do not know what will be happen to the boy making his alone through the forest towards the end of "On the Road". We do not know whether in "Letter from the Camp", the help offered by the small heroes to a Soviet prisoner will rescue him from the unknown fate of his compatriots. The fate of the Jewish girl from "Drop of Blood" is also unclear. Will she keep her new impersonation as "Marysia Malinowska"? Or will the Nazis make her into a representative of the "Nordic race"? Those questions were asked by the director for a reason. He preceived war as chaos and perdition, and not as linear history that could be reflected in a plot. Although "Birth Certificate" is saturated with moral content, it does not aim to be a morality play. But with the immense pressure of reality, no varient of fate should be excluded. This approached can be compared wth Krzysztof Kieslowski's "Blind Chance" 25 years later, which pictured dramatic choices of a different era.
The film novella "On the Road" has a very sparing plot, but it drew special attention of the reviewers. The ominating overtone of the war films created by the Polish Film School at that time should be kept in mind. Mainly owing to Wajda, those films dealt with romantic heritage. They were permeated with pathos, bitterness, and irony. Rozewicz is an extraordinary artist. When narrating a story about a boy lost in a war zone, carrying some documents from the regiment office as if they were a treasure, the narrator in "On the Road" discovers rough prose where one should find poetry. And suddenly, the irrational touches this rather tame world. The boy, who until that moment resembled a Polish version of the Good Soldier Schweik, sets off, like Don Quixote, for his first and last battle. A critic described it as "an absurd gesture and someone else could surely use it to criticise the Polish style of dying. ... But the Rozewicz brothers do no accuse: they only compose an elegy for the picturesque peasant-soldier, probably the most important veteran of the Polish war of 1939-1945." "Birth Certificate" is not a lofty statement about national imponderabilia. The film reveals a plebeian perspective which Aleksander Jackieqicz once contrasted with those "lyrical lamentations" inherent in the Kordian tradition. However, a historical overview of Rozewicz's work shows that the distinctive style does not signify a fundamental difference in illustrating the Polish September. Just as the memorable scene from Wajda's "Lotna" was in fact an expression of desperation and distress, the same emotions permeate the final scene of "Birth Certificate". These are not ideological concepts, though once described as such and fervently debated, but rather psychological creations. In this specific case, observes Witold Zalewski, it is not about manifesting knightly pride, but about a gesture of a simple man who does not agree to be enslaved.
The novella "Drop of Blood" is, with Aleksander Ford's "Border Street", one of the first narrations of the fate of the Polish Jews during the Nazi occupation. The story about a girl literally looking for her place on earth has a dramatic dimension. Especially in the age of today's journalistic disputes, often manipulative, lacking in empathy and imbued with bad will, Rozewicz's story from the past shocks with its authenticity. The small herione of the story is the only one who survives a German raid on her family home. Physical survial does not, however, mean a return to normality. Her frightened departure from the rubbish dump that was her hideout lead her to a ruined apartment. Her walk around it is painful because still fresh signs of life are mixed with evidence of annihilation. Help is needed, but Mirka does not know anyone in the outside world. Her subsequent attempts express the state of the fugitive's spirits - from hope and faith, moving to doubt, a sense of oppression, and thickening fear, and finally to despair.
At the same time, the Jewish girl's search for refuge resembles the state of Polish society. The appearance of Mirka results in confusion, and later, trouble. This was already signalled by Rozewicz in an exceptional scene from "Letter from the Camp" in which the boy's neighbour, seeing a fugitive Russian soldier, retreats immediately, admitting that "Now, people worry only about themselves." Such embarassing excuses mask fear. During the occupation, no one feels safe. Neither social status not the aegis of a charity organisation protects against repression. We see the potential guardians of Mirka passing her back and forth among themselves. These are friendly hands but they cannot offer strong support. The story takes place on that thin line between solidarity and heroism. Solidarity arises spontaneously, but only some are capable of heroism. Help for the girl does not always result from compassion; sometimes it is based on past relations and personal ties (a neighbour of the doctor takes in the fugitive for a few days because of past friendship). Rozewicz portrays all of this in a subtle way; even the smallest gesture has significance. Take, for example, the conversation with a stranger on the train: short, as if jotted down on the margin, but so full of tension. And earlier, a peculiar examination of Polishness: the "Holy Father" prayer forced on Mirka by the village boys to check that she is not a Jew. Would not rising to the challenge mean a death sentance?
Viewed after many years, "Birth Certificate" discloses yet another quality that is not present in the works of the Polish School, but is prominent in later B-class war films. This is the picture of everyday life during the war and occupation outlined in the three novellas. It harmonises with the logic of speaking about "life after life". Small heroes of Rozewicz suddenly enter the reality of war, with no experience or scale with which to compare it. For them, the present is a natural extension of and at the same time a complete negation of the past. Consider the sleey small-town marketplace, through which armoured columns will shortly pass. Or meet the German motorcyclists, who look like aliens from outer space - a picture taken from an autopsy because this is how Stanislaw and Taduesz perceived the first Germans they ever met. Note the blurred silhouettes of people against a white wall who are being shot - at first they are shocking, but soon they will probably become a part of the grim landscape. In the city centre stands a prisoner camp on a sodden bog ("People perish likes flies; the bodies are transported during the night"); in the street the childern are running after a coal wagon to collect some precious pieces of fuel. There's a bustle around some food (a boy reproaches his younger brother's actions by singing: "The warrant officer's son is begging in front of the church? I'm going to tell mother!"); and the kitchen, which one evening becomes the proscenium of a real drama. And there are the symbols: a bar of chocolate forced upon a boy by a Wehrmacht soldier ("On the Road"); a pair of shoes belonging to Zbyszek's father which the boy spontaneously gives to a Russian fugitive; a priceless slice of bread, ground under the heel of a policeman in the guter ("Letters from the Camp"). As the director put it: "In every film, I communicate my own vision of the world and of the people. Only then the style follows, the defined way of experiencing things." In Birth Certificate, he adds, his approach was driven by the subject: "I attempted to create not only the texture of the document but also to add some poetic element. I know it is risky but as for the merger of documentation and poety, often hidden very deep, if only it manages to make its way onto the screen, it results in what can referred to as 'art'."
After 1945, there were numerous films created in Europe that dealt with war and children, including "Somewhere in Europe" ("Valahol Europaban", 1947 by Geza Radvanyi), "Shoeshine" ("Sciescia", 1946 by Vittorio de Sica), and "Childhood of Ivan" ("Iwanowo dietstwo" by Andriej Tarkowski). Yet there were fewer than one would expect. Pursuing a subject so imbued with sentimentalism requires stylistic disipline and a special ability to manage child actors. The author of "Birth Certificate" mastered both - and it was not by chance. Stanislaw Rozewicz was always the beneficent spirit of the film milieu; he could unite people around a common goal. He emanated peace and sensitivity, which flowed to his co-workers and pupils. A film, being a group work, necessitates some form of empathy - tuning in with others.
In a biographical documentary about Stanislaw Rozewicz entitled "Walking, Meeting" (1999 by Antoni Krauze), there is a beautiful scene when the director, after a few decades, meets Beata Barszczewska, who plays Mireczka in the novella "Drops of Blood". The woman falls into the arms of the elderly man. They are both moved. He wonders how many years have passed. She answers: "A few years. Not too many." And Rozewicz, with his characteristic smile says: "It is true. We spent this entire time together."
非常受用。温暖，细腻。
「年轻真好啊」，温馨的小电影，Dakota Johnson变得越来越美了
没觉得片子特别的白，反而处处散发着轻盈丝滑 另外男主笑起来好像海绵宝宝哦
2022上半年最佳。真诚质朴的情感，太容易共情了。再好的演员也没有导演自己演的好。台词诙谐真实，每个人物都特殊的闪闪发光。我太爱了。太好了。
值得令人尊敬的艺人，如今已所剩无几。20年后，我们仍然记得曾经有一名香港巨星，叫梅艳芳。 还原度是对梅姐本人以及那一代创造巨星的圈内工作者最大的敬意。片头拍得很好。然而没人能代替梅艳芳和张国荣这两个人。
1、一定要看粤语版。2、我对梅姑的歌比对她的人更熟悉，这部电影算科普片，不是严肃的传记片，据说还有很多曲笔。3、王丹妮与梅艳芳形神有一点相似，就是个子太高了，和古天乐站在一起一般高。4、刘俊谦演张国荣挺好的，值得鼓励，谁接这个角色都会被一群阴阳怪气的人骂。5、后起之秀Sandy, Sally，Shirley指林忆莲、叶倩文和关淑怡。6、《夕阳之歌》改编自梅艳芳男友近藤真彦的《夕焼けの歌》，它还有一个广为人知的版本叫《千千阙歌》。7、到现在我都还记得梅艳芳在电视里公布自己罹患癌症说“这一仗我一定会打赢”时的语气和神情。我当时是相信她的。但没过多久就听到了她的死讯。2003年，张国荣、梅艳芳这一对好朋友双双离世。8、那么多经典老歌，没有《亲密爱人》，不过选了她和许志安合唱的《笑看风云变》，欣慰。
片尾的时候还真有点感动 把自己嫁给舞台...
看了点映，梅姐好有人格魅力！整个人熠熠生辉，歌很好听，影片很感人。她那个年代要是有hpv疫苗就好了，但她这一生极精彩，胜过别人十世。
but suuuuuuper sweet, and kind
梅艳芳一生的走马观灯，基本都是主流媒体加小报记者新闻内容的串联，原生家庭也好，（刘德华也好），都没有很深入地探索；但是纪实影像与虚构影像相结合的手法还是很让人动容的，尤其是张国荣葬礼的那一段录像，让很多观众都抹眼泪。王丹妮的演绎有一点生涩，但气质确实很出众；古仔中规中矩啦；张国荣的演员选的就瘦了点...但冲着那么多梅艳芳的原始影像，大量怀旧金曲，总体还是值得一看的；很令人感动的是，片尾曲的时候，全场观众没有一个离场，所有人都安安静静地看完演职人员表，听完最后的曲子。
电影的高光在穿插的梅艳芳真人影像，尤其是末尾的婚纱舞台非常感人，敢拼敢闯不屈服于命运的梅艳芳，香港的女儿。
自传真好啊
经历过上天的馈赠，也感受过命运的波折。登上过万人瞩目的红馆舞台，也躲进过黑暗逼仄的日本衣柜。换上了百变的造型，唯独没有真正穿过婚纱。角落里的情侣你侬我侬，却是她无法享有的人生。高歌时不唱兴奋唱反叛，低落处不唱伤心唱唏嘘。夕阳很美，却很短暂。把美定格在短暂的黄昏，却意外获得了永远。
一边想吐槽演员演得不像，一边也不太忍心，毕竟梅姐和哥哥这两位传奇人物就是因为这么难以复制才难得，所以估计谁来扮演都会差那么几分气质。看完这部，感受到这差距确实还是很大，所以，并不期待张国荣传，用真实画面剪个纪录片就够我们老泪纵横了。
相信自己，你的所有情绪或感动都来自阿梅本人。
相信自己，你的所有情绪或感动都来自阿梅本人。
梅艳芳，芳华绝代，天下无双，香港的女儿，传奇的一生。
重新认识港女梅艳芳。一部技法并不高超的电影，一段值得回忆的人生。
确实丝滑，温情向，一个关于成长的故事，男主有点像DTT
如果我的人生里能遇到Andrew这样的小太阳，那我一定是个幸运的人。
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