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Four Nights with Anna / Cztery noce z Anna Series: 46th New York Film Festival [Sept. 26 – Oct. 12, 2008] Director: Jerzy Skolimowski, Country: Poland/France, Release: 2008, Runtime: 87 The first film in 17 years by the great Polish auteur Jerzy Skolimowski is more than worth the wait. Reminiscent of the director’s 1971 masterpiece Deep End, the meticulously realized Four Nights with Anna centers on an introverted crematorium worker (brilliantly played by Artur Steranko) who shows his growing affection for a beautiful nurse by repeatedly breaking into her apartment while she sleeps and fixing her clock, cleaning up and occasionally spending the night by her side. From this potentially creepy scenario, Skolimowski crafts a darkly romantic tale of obsession that courses with surprising tenderness, perverse humor and ravishing surrealist images not soon to be forgotten - including a cow floating downstream under bleak midwinter light. The work of a master at the top of his form. Preceded by Pal/Secam: A Russian youth's amorous designs are thwarted by the unromantic realities of the late Soviet-era. Dmitry Povolotsky, Russia/USA, 2008; 14m. Jerzy Skolimowski b. 1938, Lodz, Poland 1991 Ferdydurke 1989 Torrents of Spring 1986 The Lightship 1984 Success Is the Best Revenge 1982 Moonlighting NYFF 1981 Hands Up! 1978 The Shout NYFF 1972 King, Queen, Knave 1971 Deep End 1970 The Adventures of Gerard 1968 Dialogue (segment: The Twenty-Year-Olds) 1967 Le Départ 1966 Barrier NYFF 1965 Walkover 1964 Identification Marks: None NYFF 1961 Boxing

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