Duma i uprzedzenie – krytyczne dyslokacje filmu Zabić księdza Agnieszki Holland
Pride and Prejudice: Critical Dislocations of To Kill a Priest by Agnieszka Holland

Summary/Abstract: The author examines how Agnieszka Holland’s film To Kill a Priest (1988) functions in various systems of film production, distribution, and critical discourses. The main aim of the presented analysis is to demonstrate how certain distribution and critical strategies contribute to consideration of the film that was made as a transnational coproduction as belonging to auteur and national cinema. In her close analysis of the film, the author explains how the critical discourse developed within the system of national cinema consolidates the cinematic text whose coherence is frequently compromised by the narrative-affective tensions and oppositions. Finally, the article argues that Agnieszka Holland’s status of a film auteur is predominantly established by means of extratextual factors, especially the strategies of distribution and various critical practices.

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