A Lonely Woman

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Agnieszka Holland's 1981 film A Lonely Woman from is one of the most depressing portraits of the late Polish People's Republic: kilometre-long queues for shops, poverty, a terrifying lack of perspectives, and mutual adversity. Such a critical film could only have been realised at the time of the “Solidarność Carnival”, during a brief political thaw in 1980-1981. Sadly, the institution of the martial law buried the chances to distribute the film: Kobieta samotna (A Lonely Woman) spent six years on the shelf and did not premiere until 1987. Even though Holland's drama is embedded in a specific historical moment, it significantly stands out among other works of the cinema of moral anxiety and in many respects is still up to date. (source: Robert Birkholc, "A Lonely Woman – Agnieszka Holland," Culture.pl.)

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