{"product_id":"pictures-of-the-old-world","title":"Pictures Of The Old World","description":"Du an Hanák s renowned film (voted the best Slovak film of all time by\r\nSlovak critics in 2000) is a poetic visual essay on the forgotten\r\npeople of remote Slovakian villages in the Tatra Mountains. Inspired by\r\nthe photographs of Slovak artist Martin Martin ek (1913 2004), whose\r\npictures distilled entire lifetimes into luminous, intransient images,\r\nHanák creates his own distinctive impressions of the artist s work,\r\ncrafting a polyphony of human stories. The film documents the lives of\r\nnine old people the textures of faces, of hands, and of landscape\r\npredominate alongside an obstinate vitality and desire for life.\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nAt odds with the Communist propaganda of the time, its depiction of\r\npoverty punctuated with alcoholism, religion, and the hardships of the\r\nsubjects lives, resulted in the film being withdrawn from release.\r\nCondemned for its aesthetics of ugliness , the film remained banned for\r\nmany years. However, Hanák's film is not a political, polemical or even\r\nsocial film. It goes far deeper to more fundamental levels of human\r\nexperience - its power and beauty lies in its unique portrait of a\r\npeople whose vitality seems to radiate from their very souls.\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nOne of the greatest works of documentary cinema Peter Hames.\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nPictures of the Old World is incredible. What a find! David Jenkins,\r\nLittle White Lies.\r\n","brand":"Second Run","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54300966093185,"sku":"SECONDRUN092","price":15.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0702\/9050\/5986\/files\/2849395.jpg?v=1747172783","url":"https:\/\/hit.co.uk\/products\/pictures-of-the-old-world","provider":"Hit","version":"1.0","type":"link"}