Moonlighting

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

1982 / 97min / DCP

Inspired and outraged by the imposition of martial law in Poland in December of 1981, Skolimowksi, then living in London, offered an artistic response to events with the nuanced political allegory Moonlighting, starring a young Jeremy Irons—in an early lead role—as a Polish contractor in England working in imposed isolation with four other illegals to renovate a flat owned by a corrupt countryman. (In fact, Skolimowski’s own London apartment.) A poignant, crushingly claustrophobic portrayal of the exile’s twinned alienation from both homeland and a foreign culture. “Possesses such clarity of vision and simplicity that it seems to have been made in one uninterrupted burst of creative energy. It’s a small, nearly perfect work of its kind.”—The New York Times

Extended Introduction from Dominic Leppla, Polish film scholar, on Saturday May 20th