Walkover

Director: Jerzy Skolimowski, Jerzy Skolimowski, Jerzy Skolimowski, Jerzy Skolimowski, Jerzy Skolimowski, Jerzy Skolimowski, Jerzy Skolimowski, Jerzy Skolimowski, Jerzy Skolimowski, Jerzy Skolimowski, Jerzy Skolimowski, Jerzy Skolimowski

1965 / 77min / DCP

Skolimowski returns to the role of Andrzej Leszczyc in the atmospheric second film of his Leszczyc trilogy, in which the director’s authorial alter ego has grown up into a sullen, footloose amateur middleweight boxer, newly arrived in a haunted factory town to take part in a contest for young fighters, though he himself is pushing 30. (Significantly, the film contains only 29 individual set-ups.) Adding inestimably to the film’s feeling of dreamlike drift is the score by Skolimowski’s friend and collaborator, the great jazz composer Krzysztof Komeda. Cahiers du cinéma’s #2 film of 1966.

Extended Introduction from Dominic Leppla, Polish film scholar, on Saturday May 6th