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30 of 31 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Be warned this DVD is tough viewing and all to easy to write off (for your own sake) as a ghoulish, manipulative juxtaposition of tragic music with horror images. Truly, it is a valid, moving visual analogue to the mightily successful CD version. This film, amde around the same time, includes interviews with Gorecki himself and visuals of the performers in action - Dawn Upshaw very moving. The musical aspect is intertwined with real life footage of inhumanity: starving Africans, Nazi death camps, Auschwitz, etc. The music brings our collective pain and fear to the surface, but also acts as a balm, a consolation for it. These images should be seen, not forgotten, and are made more bearable as a part of what is a well-intentioned film. To buy the CD was to express your pleasure in the music: to buy this DVD is to express your solidarity with the sufferings of others. One step in the right direction, if nothing else.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
I have never seen such an impactive set of images. The images alone are distressing beyond I thought possible, but coupled with the music it resonates with one's soul, which you can only fully understand when you have watched it. Often we forget the feeling of pain and suffering because often it is only temporary, but this shows several examples where it isn't temporary, i.e. the holocaust. This provides a mere window into the type of suffering people had to go through which helps one put into perspective the pain they went through. It also allows us to try and comprehend the ability of some people and what evil truly is. Words cannot describe what's contained within this DVD so the music is what makes it so perfect, untainted and raw it tells a history of human evil. Everyone should watch this, although not a present experience, it may open people's eyes and help prevent such things in the future.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase
I was completely ignorant of this work, I might have found my attention beginning to wander in a straight concert performance, but Tony Palmer's film added/superimposed just enough never to get in the way of the music and to create, jointly with Gorecki, a masterpiece.
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