Koncert zyczen

1967 [POLISH]

Action / Drama

5
IMDb Rating 5.7/10 10 909 909

Plot summary

A young couple leave a lake campsite on motorbike at the same time as a bus full of youths. The boy accidently loses a tent along the road which is picked up by those in the bus who offer a trade of the tent for his girl.

1080p.BluRay
491.94 MB
1392*1072
Polish 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
12 hr 16 min
Seeds 1

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by bob the moo

Didn't really do anything for me I'm afraid

A young man and his girlfriend are staying at a camp site near to where a group of other young men are all camped together. The busload of boys leave first but, having packed all their stuff away, the couple pass them on their motorbike – ignoring their catcalls on the way. The couple soon realize that they have dropped their tent somewhere on the road and turn back to look for it – only to find that the busload of boys has stopped and found it first. The boys make a simple proposal – the tent in exchange for the girl.The plot summary makes it sound interesting and it was enough to make me interested enough to give it a go but really I must say I was left wondering what I had just spent 15 minutes of my time on. I'm sure fans of Kieslowski will come after me for daring to suggest that this but this is just not very good! The direction is good in that it is quite well shot with plenty to hold the eye. However, substance-wise there is not a great deal going on here – there is stuff that is so out of place that I'm sure it was meant to mean something, but goodness only knows what. The overall narrative has no real meaning either and nothing really happens – I'm sure it is all meant to mean something in the context of the couple's relationship but if it did it certainly did a very good job of keeping it a secret!The cast are OK and seem natural enough but there is no real material for them to work with and none of them have any characters – a problem that can sometimes occur where the script is more interested in what the characters represent than who they are in themselves. Generally the boys just shout and act like a mass rather than individuals who can be picked out.Overall a disappointing short film that left me with nothing at all after I had watched it. The plot is very simple but isn't anywhere near as interesting as it sounds and the meaning that I assume was there is so well hidden that I must admit I found it to be almost without meaning or point. A shame but happily it was from a director who got a lot better and more interesting as he went on.
Reviewed by A_Roode 6 / 10

Early Kieslowski film with many questions.

*** POSSIBLE MINOR SPOILERS ***I think that 'Concert of Wishes' is best viewed as what it was: an unpolished short film from film school. Short films, for me anyway, are less interesting than features. They can be very difficult to pull off because your narrative and the point of your film has to be focused in on intensely and quickly. You don't have the budget, time or luxury to be self-indulgent. What 'Concert of Wishes' offers is the promise of a film-maker who would go on to bigger and better things.The film is about a young man and his girlfriend on a camping trip. On the other side of the lake are a bunch of young buffoons (a guy with glasses and a ball is the only exception). Both groups are leaving around the same time. As the young couple passes the bus their tent falls off and the buffoons take it. The girl insists they go back for the tent and when they do, the buffoons say they will only exchange the tent for the girl. Hijinks ensue.Two things I liked about the film: 1)the curiosity. The camera is probing and curious. It is always watching and seeking out. The boy with the ball is running through the woods but the camera peeks out at him from behind trees, never trying to reveal himself. The boy himself becomes an observer. He conceals himself in the trees and watches as the young couple pack up their camp site and prepare to leave. Characters in this film tend to either stare intensely at you like the boy (or those children of the corn wannabes at the road side) or stare at you as extroverts (like the boys on the bus who want to swap the girl for the tent). 2) the menace. This is a very menacing film and I thought it was pretty effective. When the young couple passes the bus on their motorcycle they are harassed. Realizing they've lost the tent, the guy would rather just forget about it. The girl wants to go back and retrieve it. A test? I'm not sure. It is menacing when they get back to the waiting bus. They are surrounded and I found myself wondering if they were as likely to get the tent back as they were to be robbed, raped and murdered.I'm not sure if the tent or the ID papers were more important. The girl says that her papers were in the tent that they lost. It turns out that her boyfriend had them in his pocket. Did either of them know they were there or not? The boyfriend isn't distant with his girlfriend but he's not warm either (think of his annoyance at having to part her hair instead of finishing packing and repairing the motorcycle). Is her willingness to be exchanged for the tent a test of his true feelings? And is her willingness to go a test for the boy of her true feelings? All of this depends upon whether or not they knew the true location of the papers.I find myself left with more questions than answers. It's a moral film and there may be some allegorical reference to society in Communist Poland that I don't get. Maybe as I watch it again I'll find the answers that I want.
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