The first time I watched a movie without sound. In absolute silence. And even so, he
touched me to the core.
As the young man who kept me company correctly noted: “If you
watch a movie without sound, you understand everything, it makes you empathize, and not being bored
is a cool movie. ”
So, the new directorial work of Pavel Delong,“ Pani Basia ”-
is a really cool movie. No matter how the viewer resists the emotional influence of the film, "Pani Basya"
will not leave anyone indifferent.
The film "Pani Basya" is not an ordinary publicistic video on the burning
ecological topic: the topic smog and its damaging effects on the human body. This is
a small fiction story about a few hours in the life of an ordinary woman,
a simple teacher. A story woven both from her daily affairs and from new
anxious experiences caused by receiving a letter from a medical clinic.
"Pani Basia" is a touching story of one particular person who was caught into the trap of the poisonous effect of smog on the human body.
Pani Basia is one of those ordinary women whom we meet in everyday
life on the street, in a store, a medical clinic, at a bus stop ..., one of the many ... and
because each of them has their own life story.
Director Pavel Delong snatched such a woman out of the crowd and made the viewer
learn her story, her tragedy, and not just to know, to pass through your heart.
Together with Mrs. Basya, the audience goes step by step through all the stages of her journey in these
several hours from the moment of receiving the letter to communicating with the doctor and the hospital bed. And they do not go this way mechanically, following the movements of the heroine.Pass it
emotionally. Her pain, fear, feelings become pain, fear, feelings
of the viewer.
The world of the heroine in the film is shown by the director very intimately. Here are her curtains,
chosen with such love, which she twitches with a familiar, well-practiced gesture.
And here are photographs of dear Madam Basi people, when looking at which her eyes light up
with a gentle smile, and his hands are still reaching out to stroke the faces of loved ones.
Pavel Degong said this about his directorial plan: “Among us there are
the silent heroes of everyday life. And I would like to have such a
hero in my film. ”
And he succeeded.
The story in the film“ Mrs. Basya ”flows slowly, but nevertheless, the viewer
does not get tired, does not start to get bored, but on the contrary, greedily catches every moment
of the film, every emotion of both the main character and minor characters.
However, such characters can be to name in this film only
conventionally.
They are like an exquisite setting for a precious diamond - the game of Elzhbetta Yarosik
(Mrs. Basia). And together with it they make up a rare piece of jewelry - the film "Pani
As in jewelry, all the details work on the main task - to convey its uniqueness
, so in the film by Pavel Delong" Pani Basia "the actors of the second plan
help to make the heroine's story realistic, but also unique at the same time.
For example, the doctor (Tadeusz Hoek), who speaks the ruthless truth, but also
has endless sympathy for the heroine.
And how good is the actor who played the son of Pani Basi.
Ladies in the clinics, each with its own story, help the viewer to understand that the case
of Pani Basi is not an isolated one. She is just one of a chain of victims of environmental crimes.
Yes, yes, crime. Otherwise, what happens by the will of "progress" with nature and
cannot be called a man.
The city also plays an important role in conveying the story of Mrs. Basi. Here the director
works in contrast: grief is a holiday. In the city, festively decorated for Christmas and
New Year, for such fabulous, magical holidays, the human tragedy of the heroine, her loneliness in the face of illness, is especially acutely felt .
Pavel Delong is not only works well with actors. He always amazes with the choice of
musical compositions for his films, small videos. And here he also very
successfully chose Cortez's music, which gave an incredibly strong emotional
coloring to the film, conveying both despair and hope, and at the same time love, love of the main
heroine for people and to life.
Still, the film does not leave a heavy, gloomy mood in the finale. Probably
this is due to the amazing light and warmth that, despite the severe
illness, the heroine continues to give. She did not become embittered, no, she did not withdraw into herself. She
catches the moments of life, relives her bright moments in her memories.