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  Review by Filipe Furtado ★★★½

  Renoir updated to a vulgar era in which love gets replaced by pure lust. One of Skolimowski’s pet subjects (men’s regressive mind) painted in a large canvas with an extra dose of Crispin Glover and nazis.

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  Review by Henrique Quadros

  Wears its stupidity on its sleeve and just delivers several episodic moments of british tomfoolery in front of a panorama of 1939 pre-war Britain getting ready for the bombs

  Probably funnier if you read the book, and maybe even funnier if you're British or French. The Renoir homage is actually pretty clear, which is always a cool thing

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  Review by Dmitry_Karpyuk ★★★½

  Сколимовски экранизировал абсурдистский роман Витольда Гомбровича про 30-летнего писателя, которого старый учитель заставляет вновь идти в школу. Гримасничающий Криспин Гловер и диковатые, но тем и цепляющие гэги как-то отвлекают от свастик на каждом углу и фраз "Англия и Франция гарантируют, что Германия не вторгнется в Польшу". Но весь веселый карнавал резко оборвется в финале, под кадры хроники с бомбардировщиками, сбрасывающими щедрые подарки на города.

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  Review by Iman Rahbar ★★★

  یک اقتباس دیگه این بار از یک نویسنده‌ی لهستانی. اسکولیموفسکی این بار برگشته به سبک فیلمسازی سوررئال خودش و فیلمسازان لهستانی هم‌دوره‌اش و فیلم عجیبی درست کرده که ترکیبیه از کافکا و لحن طنزآمیز ابزود و کنایه‌آمیزی که توی بعضی آثارش میشد دید (این ترکیب، یه کم من رو یاد سینمای روی آندرسون هم انداخت). البته یه کمی آشفته یه جاهایی زیادی آشفته میشه و طنزش هم همیشه بامزه از آب درنمیاد ولی در کل لحظه‌ها و ارجاعات جذابش خیلی بیشترن و تجربه‌ی جالب و لذت‌بخشیه.

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  Review by Sparks Lowry ★★★½

  Renoir-lite/Vigo-lite with some crazy Crispin Glover action. Really solid as both an ode to and meditation on stupidity, and the ending seals it.

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  Review by Gingernut ★★★½

  I always wanted to know what George McFly would be like if he went to a Polish boarding school in the 1930's.

  And now i know.

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  Review by Chris Browning ★★★½

  If this was somehow serialises into ninety one minute episodes, I would adore it. It's full of sublime and ridiculous moments, but they never feel part of a whole - there's a sense of too many, disparate ideas sloshing together and leaving you with a well meaning mess

  But the enthusiasm from the cast! They just go all in all the time. They act their socks off - and Crispin Glover and Robert Stephens somehow feel like two generations of intense, slightly hammy and sometimes brilliant actors handing the baton to each other. Glen is affable and these days would probably be Matt Smith in the role. He's good enough, but mostly stands aside for Stephens and Glover to dominate proceedings. Which they do, yet again overloading the film

  Frustrating but fun

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  Review by FinnHalen ★★★★½ 1

  A very strange film that I enjoyed the everloving heck out of!
  A man gets sent to a school for regressive adults where they have face making battles and spout curse words like edgy 10 year olds. It is here we meet Mintus, played by Crispin Glover.
  He really held the movie together, because over time, as our main character Joey's story becomes considerably less interesting, Mintus' plot thickens, he's basically the driving force of the climax of the movie, which was satisfying as hell.
  I really dug this movie. It's unique and surprisingly fun to watch.

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  Review by Versace_Cologne ★★★½

  Good goofy fun for a good portion but it is much too european and literary for me

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  Review by Chodie_Foster ★★½

  Take two parts Jeunet, one part Python, one part vodka, and mix heavily in a Polish blender. This is an extremely frantic movie, and I unfortunately lost the plot somewhere at the halfway point. I'm sure readers of Witold Gombrowicz's novel will have a better time with this film. That said, I'd love to watch a remastered version of the film. I watched this on YouTube and their source is pretty rough to look at.

  Highlights include a leading role from a young Iain Glen from Game of Thrones. There's also a supporting turn from Crispin Glover, chewing up scenery as only he can.

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  Review by Ryan M ★★½

  The book was nearly incomprehensible without a pretty decent knowledge of the cultural and historical context, but I can only imagine trying to watch the film without that context or having read the book. It would be impenetrable.

  Still, though, Crispin Glover.