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Mon 04 Apr 2011The esssential guide to a cinematic great
A child of resistance fighters in Poland during the war, director Jerzy Skolimowski knows all about sublimating politics into art and allegory, writes DONALD CLARKE
AS HAS ALREADY been noted in these pages, 2011 is the year of the Irish co-production. Films such as As If I am Not There, Circus Fantasticus, Lapland Odysseyand Off the Beaten Trackhave seen Irish producers work with partners from Macedonia, Slovenia, Finland and Romania.
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