#Piotr Domalewski

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Cicha noc [Silent Night] (Piotr Domalewski, 2017)

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"Operation Hyacinth" | Poland | 2021

Dir. Piotr Domalewski

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HIACYNT / OPERATION HYACINTH 2021 | dir. Piotr Domalewski

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Non-Anglo Movies You Should Watch 4/∞: Hiacynt (2021; Operation Hyacinth), dir. Piotr Domalewski

Country: Poland

Language: Polish

Genre: Crime Thriller

Summary: Not satisfied with the result of a murder investigation on a serial killer targeting gay men, a young officer in 1980s communist Warsaw sets out on his own to discover the truth. The relationship with his gay informant soon begins to affect not only his work, but also his personal life. The film is based on a secret mass operation of the Polish communist police to create a national database of all Polish homosexuals and their associates.

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movie log.

week 23/2024

watched:

n/a

rewatched:

05.06.2024 Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009), dir. Phil Lord, Christopher Miller

06.06.2024 Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (2013), dir. Cody Cameron, Kris Pearn

07.06.2024 Finding Dory (2016), dir. Andrew Stanton

new on my watchlist:

陰陽師0 (2024), aka Onmyoji 0, dir. Sato Shimako

Hiacynt (2021), aka Operation Hyacinth, dir. Piotr Domalewski

Kurak Günler (2022), aka Burning Days, dir. Emin Alper

რას ვხედავთ როდესაც ცას ვუყურებთ? (2021), aka What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?, dir. Alexandre Koberidze

Mami Wata (2023), dir. C.J. 'Fiery' Obasi

next up:

Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002), dir. Kelly Asbury, Lorna Cook (rewatch)

My Own Private Idaho (1991), dir. Gus Van Sant

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Pitch Week

It was an educational moment to pitch to a panel of lecturer's our adaptation idea...

These are the slides I worked on:

Text for slides:

Themes, storytelling considerations, tone, and style. Themes that we have added through characterisation and story development. 

The stylistic approach reflects Felix’s mindset and the setting’s discomfort by being partially disaturated. This takes inspiration from A Special Day and Operation Hyacinth that use themes of surveillance, lack of privacy, and discomfort to motivate their stylistic choices. These themes are present in our film as we have embedded them into the screenplay through the characters. These characters are constantly hiding or running away with authority preventing them from achieving their goals. This takes inspiration from Ashes and Diamonds’ portrayal of trauma and guilt the protagonist faces due to authority to motivate the development of the narrative. The stylistic approach to the film’s present day setting will implement techniques to create an unpleasant environment. The narrative encourages this as both Felix and Berkeley are searching for a utopia, a queer utopia. In turn, by presenting an unpleasant environment the characters live in the film encourages to imagine the opposite, to find the place that these characters are looking for. This approach to the environment takes inspiration from Akira Kurosawa’s Drunken Angel and Ana Lily Amirpour’s A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night. 

Film References:

A Single Man (Tom Ford, 2009)

A Special Day (Ettore Scola, 1977)

Hiroshima, Mon Amour (Alain Resnais, 1959) 

Ashes and Diamonds (Andrzej Wajda, 1958)

Drunken Angel (Akira Kurosawa, 1948)

Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, 1958)

Operation Hyacinth (Piotr Domalewski, 2021)

Text for slide Silhouette/ Shadow Flashbacks

This will provide a greater visual difference from the present scenes to the flashback sequences that use colour and silhouettes to provide a more subjective perspective. This is due to a silhouettes ability to eliminate unnecessary distractions and focus the audience’s attention on events and details most important to the protagonist.

In Muriel, Alain Resnais uses objects to transition between past and present. Sherlock has imaginative transitions.

After the pitch, Menna and I had a conversation about our short story, and she kindly offered to help us. Afterwards I sent her an email with an outline me and Ethan wrote.

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HIACYNT (2021) dir. Piotr Domalewski Not satisfied with the result of a murder investigation in Warsaw's gay community, Robert, an officer in 1980s communist Poland resolves to uncover the truth by infiltrating the same circles. In the course of the investigation, he meets Arek. He decides to use him as an informant, not realizing how much this relationship will affect not only his work, but also his personal life. (link in title)

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I Never Cry (Piotr Domalewski, 2020).

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Film after film: Hiacynt (Operation "Hyacinth," dir. Piotr Domalewski, 2021)

My beef with Polish films that tackle LGBTQ+ stories is that they mostly deal with the trauma of the past and/or the present in ways that are predictably mundane. This film has a lot of it too, and it's not a bad thing. There's just no heart that beats under the layer of an interesting yet emotionally detached storyline, with one great lead role (Zietek) and not much more.

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Watch UK Trailer For I Never Cry

Watch UK Trailer For I Never Cry

Sometimes it takes a death to understand life like in the UK Trailer for Polish-Irish indie I Never Cry. Eureka Entertainment are releasing the second feature from one of the most awarded young Polish directors, Piotr Domalewski (Silent Night) which is heading to UK cinemas in July. Writer-director Piotr Domalewski’s (Silent Night) dark comedy has won acclaim and numerous awards in his native…

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Movie-log 

186. Cicha noc / Silent night

Piotr Domalewski -- 2017 | Poland | 6

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JAK NAJDALEJ STĄD - recenzja Kino w tubce#241

rugi, pełnometrażowy film, autora Cichej Nocy. Drugi też film o emigracji, ale też o rodzinie. Piotr Domalewski łączy w swoich filmach właśnie te dwa tematy. Opowiada o rodzinie czasami ocierając się o patologiczne sytuacje, ale jednocześnie bez ostrych, wyraźnych ocen, raczej z sympatią i zrozumieniem. W Jak najdalej stąd pokazuje te trudne, pokomplikowane relacje rodzinne z bardzo różnych perspektyw.Jeżeli komuś podobała się Cicha Noc to ten film również powinien przypaść mu do gustu, choć tu Domalewski idzie w trochę inną stronę, inaczej pokazuje te relacje rodzinne, inna tez jest konwencja. Ale temat podobny i podobna jakość.Świetna rola Zofii Stafiej, która, na ekranie, w krótkim czasie potrafiła pokazać wiarygodnie przemianę ze zdołowanej dziewczynki, właściwie jeszcze dziecka w bardzo pewną siebie kobietę. Po więcej zapraszamy do naszej recenzji

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Cicha noc (Domalewski, 2017)

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Jak Najdalej Stad/I Never Cry by Piotr Domalewski.