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Screening at TIFF: Agnieszka Holland’s ‘Franz’
Ambitious to a fault, Kafka biopic Franz is as much about the landmark Czech surrealist as it is about its own making, as a commercialized re-telling of a life cut tragically short. It isn’t the first time Polish virtuoso Agnieszka Holland has approached the legendary author—she produced a televised theatrical production of Kafka’s The Trial in the early 1980s—but her film feels like a fresh (albeit contradictory) look at Kafka’s mundane, bourge…
Franz Kafka is an institution in Prague and his face has become more of a brand of his landscape, so when it comes to facing a film around his life, veteran filmmaker Agnieszka Holland has opted to do it freely and without predictability. The result is Franz, a film that is part of the Official Section and that does not finish deepening or understanding the writer. Great admirer of his work – he adapted in 1980 the book The Trial on Polish Telev…
Franz. That's the name Agnieszka Hollandová, the director of the series The Burning Bush, gave to her new film. Before its Czech premiere, she presented it at the Toronto festival, and at the end of September she is going to San Sebastian with it. A week ago, she received the Artis Bohemiae Amicis award from the Minister of Culture in Prague. Her energy is indomitable, her diligence extraordinary. When you photograph her, she is kind and patient…
The life of Franz Kafka has been brought into the official competition by filmmaker and screenwriter Agnieszka Holland. The film was presented today at the San Sebastian Film Festival and w...
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