The Museum is open 11:00 – 19:00
Cinema is closed now
The Museum is open 11:00 – 19:00
Cinema is closed now
WITHNAIL & I
Film and conversation
We invite you to a screening of the film Withnail and I as part of the Down&Dirty series. British cinema of the 1980s.
The screening will be followed by a discussion with Michał Oleszczyk, curator of the series.
The 1960s are coming to an end, and with them, the counterculture is dying out. This sad news has not yet fully reached the titular Withnail and his nameless friend (the "I" in the title is autobiographical), who are vegetating in 1969 in a dirt-covered flat in London's Camden district, waiting for a miracle in the form of a coveted acting job. When the two friends decide to get some fresh air during a weekend in the English countryside at Withnail's uncle's house, they set off an avalanche of comical situations and troubles...
Bruce Robinson is more of a writer than a screen actor, and over the decades he has directed only a few films – but Withnail and I secured him a place in the canon of British comedy.
The perfectly cast Richard E. Grant became an unforgettable embodiment of the perpetually drunk, wildly brilliant, and hopelessly self-destructive dandy—his Withnail is part Lord Byron, part beer-drinking smart aleck.
Quotes from Robinson's screenplay have entered everyday language, and the film stands out from other classics about crazy friends (such as Wniebowzięci with Maklakiewicz and Himilsbach) in that it reaches true pathos in its final scenes.
A masterpiece little known in Poland and a must-read for lovers of British culture!
Bruce Robinson is more of a writer than a screen actor, and over the decades he has directed only a few films – but Withnail and I secured him a place in the canon of British comedy.
The perfectly cast Richard E. Grant became an unforgettable embodiment of the perpetually drunk, wildly brilliant, and hopelessly self-destructive dandy—his Withnail is part Lord Byron, part beer-drinking smart aleck.
Quotes from Robinson's screenplay have entered everyday language, and the film stands out from other classics about crazy friends (such as Wniebowzięci with Maklakiewicz and Himilsbach) in that it reaches true pathos in its final scenes.
A masterpiece little known in Poland and a must-read for lovers of British culture!
[Michał Oleszczyk]