[WARSAW BRIDGE screens Monday October 3 rd at 7 pm at the Cleveland Cinematheque. Critic Jonathan Rosenbaum will be on hand to introduce and discuss the film.]
Distilling a film like this into words for a review is no easy task. There isn't really anything that could be called a plot in WARSAW BRIDGE, but that doesn't mean it isn't about anything. It's essentially a meditation on the arts – literature, sculpture, classical music, opera, photography, film, even cooking all get their due – and the ways in which they effect and are effected by outside forces. The one element that recurs through the film is a writer who has written an award winning book called Warsaw Bridge. He discusses his work with various people, telling a journalist that he cannot give a synopsis of it, and debating with a friend about the merits or lack thereof in modifying a work to reach an audience.
