★★★★☆ For his sixth feature, renowned Polish director Jerzy Kawalerowicz decided to board the Night Train (1959), inspired by his frequent trips to woo actress Lucyna Winnicka. She would star in the resulting thriller which was to prove no mere potboiler, but instead the chance to put his characters in an intense pressure cooker of tension. With his country having emerged from a period of cultural Stalinism, Kawalerowicz and screenwriter Jerzy Lutowski used generic motifs to place a cross-section of Polish society aboard the titular train together and psychologically examine them within the confines of one particular sleeping carriage.
- 5/17/2015
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
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