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Jakub Kolski, Jasminium |
JAN JAKUB KOLSKI’S JASMINUM OPENS CHICAGO’S
18TH POLISH FILM FESTIVAL IN AMERICA
NOVEMBER 4, 2006, 7:30 PM
Gateway Movie Theatre
5216 West Lawrence Avenue
Chicago
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- JASMINUM (Latin for jasmine) is Kolski’s eleventh feature film. It has
already won top awards at this year’s film festivals in Torun and
Cieszyn. Its fabulous cast includes Janusz Gajos, Adam Ferency, and
Boguslaw Linda, and it’s scored by Zygmunt Konieczny. The
contemporary but mysterious and magical story is set in a monastery
in which some of the monks emit bodily scents that match their names
– Brother Plum, Brother Cherry. When an art restorer arrives to
conserve sacred paintings (played by Grazyna Blecka-Kolska), who
happens to be skilled in the preparation of love scents, the
inquiring mind of her charming five-year-old daughter Gienia (Wiktoria
Gosiewska) wreaks havoc in the ordered life of the monastery. The
work of Jan Jakub Kolski,
probably the most stylistically unconventional of contemporary
Polish filmmakers, has been compared to the magic realism of South
American writers, and enjoys a special popularity at this Chicago
festival, which has shown all his feature films: A Potato Burial,
Pograbek, Johnny the Aquarius, A Miraculous Place, Playing for a
Death Angel, A Sword from Commander, History of the Movies in
Popielawy, Far from a Window, and Pornography.
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- The
Festival offers on its gala Opening Night presentation of the
festival stars and official guests, special awards ceremony, and a
surprise mini-concert, as well as The Opening Night Reception attended by the Polish film celebrities before the screening, and Plus Blues Night Party showcasing world famous Chicago blues
musicians afterwards; both events will take place in 1112 Gallery of
the Society for Arts (1112 Milwaukee Ave., Chicago), a place of
special film exhibition to open that evening as well. The PFFA
Opening Night all inclusive invitations are $60.00 per person.
Tickets for screening only are $20.00, and Plus Blues Party
admission is $25.00.
- The Festival will include in its program a retrospective of the
legendary POLA NEGRI (including Woman of the World,
1925, and Hotel Imperial 1927, as well as the
new documentary Life is a Dream in Cinema: Pola Negri, directed by Mariusz
K. Kotowski (2005, 89 min.), and a selection of documentaries about
Poland by MACIEJ DRYGAS, including his Voice of Hope (2002) and One Day in People’s Poland (2005).
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- For complete information about the PFFA and
the 2006 Festival (November 4-19), call 773-486-9612 or visit its
official website at www.pffamerica.com.
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