Directed by Jerzy SkolimowskiMy rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(VHS, Magnum Entertainment)
Political allegory from Skolimowski focusing on exiled Polish director Michael York and family's problems in England. York is trying to finance a TV production about the Polish soccer team. John Hurt is the eccentric millionaire to whom he pleas for help. The result? A set of giant Newton's cradle balls is constructed, then mixed with strobe lights and riot police, their purpose unclear. Meanwhile, his teenage son Michael Lyndon is bullied at school for being a Pole, and reacts by going punk: he gives himself red-spiked hair and lightning bolt make up, then tries to flee the country. Any serious political statement from Skolimowski is undermined by the silliness of it all.
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