A Terminal Disease
Abstract
Krzysztof Zanussi’s work in the 1970s was chiefly associated with modern scientific thinking. As years went by his films were associated with “quest for religion”, where rationalism met attempts to find some transcendence, search for God. Zanussi himself classifies them as “confessional” films for people interested in a character related with a certain religion. The hidden religious aspect of the depicted reality does not signify the presence of God, but merely a premonition of him. These reflections are inseparably connected with the issue of death, so typical of Zanussi’s filmmaking. The fictional and mental plot of death, the way it unfolds also becomes the reason of very ambivalent interpretations. On the one hand, death remains, after all, a basic philosophical problem, an intellectual challenge, but on the other hand, it evokes eschatological mood, is a metaphysical problem man has to face. Świętochowska follows the plot in Zanussi’s films and tries to categorize its evolution.
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Krzysztof Zanussi, scientism, metaphysicsReferences
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Grażyna Świętochowskakwartalnik.filmowy@ispan.pl
University of Gdańsk Poland
Doktorantka w Zakładzie Dramatu, Teatru i Filmu UG, redaktor czasopisma filmowo-artystycznego „Panoptikum”.
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