Agnieszka Holland Retrospective at MoMA

The Museum of Modern Art’s ongoing Agnieszka Holland retrospective in New York City continues until January 5, 2009. Holland, best known for her World War II era drama Europa Europa, The Secret Garden (above, lower photo), Washington Square, and Total Eclipse (top photo, with Leonardo DiCaprio), directed and wrote a number of lesser-known films in her native Poland.
Among the upcoming MoMA screenings are several efforts from her Polish period, including the 1981 political dramas Fever and A Lonely Woman, both of which were banned in Poland at the time.
Also screening are the intriguing US-made drama Anna (1987), directed by Yurek Bogayevicz, written by Holland, and starring a magnificent, Oscar-nominated Sally Kirkland, and the social drama The Offsiders (2008), directed by [...]

by Andre Soares | December 28, 2008   
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