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Director Agnieszka Holland on Cancel Culture and Its Effects on ‘Charlatan’ Polish filmmaker Agnieszka Holland says Cancel Culture takes many forms that suffocate Art, including the oversimplification of truth and judgmental attitudes. Veteran Polish filmmaker Agnieszka Holland has frequently returned to the past in her cinema. Her 1990 film  Europa Europa is based on the autobiography of Solomon Perel, a German Jewish boy who deceives the Nazis, convincing them he’s of Aryan descent.  In Darkness (2011), tells the true story of Leopold Socha (Robert Wieckiewicz), who finds escape...

Polish director Agniezka Holland's new miniseries, "Burning Bush," playing in New York at the Film Forum and streaming online at Fandor, is deliberately not epic. Holland has never prized spectacle over incident. There are no matte painting landscapes teeming with extras; no big speeches that give us the moral with a bow tied around it; no easy answers and few satisfying endings. Her films are set in an unfair past, which would be all blue, grey and black if it weren't for all the bloodshed. "Burning Bush" may concern dozens of characters over the course of many months during a tempestuous ti...