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20h15, Poland 1978, 1h56, polish with english fansubs

 

The action of "Wsród nocnej ciszy" takes place before Second World War.A series of cold and brutal killings of small boys shocks the citizens of Polish town.The children are murdered with a gun and a black clad killer always leaves one trace on crime scene:a small toy with the picture of a cat on it.Police officer Teofil Herman begins to track an elusive killer..."Quiet Is the Night" is based on Ladislav Fuks novel "Sledztwo prowadzi radca Heumann" from 1971.The acting is excellent and the characters are well-developed.The relationship between father and son is truly believable and tragic.The climax is strikingly powerful and intense.If you are a fan of Italian gialli or Fritz Lang's "M" you can't miss this forgotten Polish classic.

 " Very powerful Polish giallo"

" This film is one of the greatest I have ever seen. Unfortunately, it has never been released in this country. I saw it at the Montreal film festival in 1979 and again in Montreal on a visit in the mid-eighties. (Please let's get the many great Eastern European films of the sixties and seventies made available to film lovers.)...The two lead actors are both excellent, and this is a story that is intense, interesting, thought provoking and accessible - Who can't relate to a family's communication problems."

 "strongly recommended"

22h30, France 1985, 90min, french with english fansubs

 A serial killer signs his crimes Billy-Ze-Kick (« Ze » being « the » as pronounced by someone with a French accent). The only trouble is that Billy-Ze-Kick is a character invented by a police inspector when he tells stories to his 12 years old daughter. Does she somehow direct the killer ?

Billy-Ze-Kick, from a novel by Jean Vautrin, is a one-of-a-kind movie, set in a slightly warped world and including seriously deranged characters. Even the sanest among them have enough idiosyncrasies not to belong is any standard crime movie. Thanks to a well-written script and great performances by the likes of Zabou, Francis Perrin or Michael Lonsdale, this is original, intriguing, provocative, clever, funny and, most of all, downright crazy. I put it under « hidden gem » because althought it has comedy elements, it’s not really a comedy, nor is it really a thriller, nor does it belong to any real genre that I can think of.

 A surrealist comedy musical with gore, nudity, a serial killer, a transsexual, a schizophrenic, a comic book hero, terrorism, a wedding, a lisping heroine and an old lady caught nicking a tin of sardines in a supermarket. In short: this is very very unusual. Do not miss the questioning of witnesses after the assassination! Very entertaining, but not to everyone's tastes.