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I knew right away he was the one. Totem Films has released the first promo trailer for a Czech animated film titled My Sunny Maad, premiering at the 2021

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...

Sign up for Sight & Sound’s Weekly Film Bulletin and more News, reviews and archive features every Friday, and information about our latest magazine once a month. Email ▶ Agnieszka Holland is not one for heroes and villains. The Polish director has revisited the darkest power abuses of Europe’s last century throughout her career – depicting the Holocaust in Europa Europa (1991) and In Darkness (2011), and Soviet Ukraine’s Holodomor in Mr. Jones (2019) – with an emphasis not on ideological divisions but the capacity within every human, tested by high-stakes oppre...

⭑⭑⭑ DUBBED the “oracle of urine,” this fascinating and complex drama set in the 1950s is based on the little known but real-life story of Czech herbal healer Jan Mikolasek, who could diagnose people’s ailments just by looking at their pee.      Shot in a highly artistic, almost reverential way it makes for gross yet strangely enthralling viewing as Mikolasek (an outstanding Ivan Trojan) holds glass bottles full of his patients’ urine up to the natural light and examines them. Mikolasek was a celebrated and devout healer who apparently treated several million people — rangin...

Charlatan review – inside the mind of a prickly mystic Wendy Ide © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Everett Collection Inc/Alamy A local legend in the mid-20th century Czech Republic who scrutinised the urine of his clients and made diagnoses based on a blend of science and mysticism, Jan Mikolášek is a prickly subject for Agnieszka Holland’s latest biographical drama. Its title notwithstanding, the film expends little energy exploring whether or not Mikolášek’s healing gift was genuine. The recurring shots of him glowering at his own hands suggest that it was...