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- In this short made in France (his first work outside Poland), Polanski profits from his newfound freedom of expression to make sarcastic criticisms about the Stalinist modus operandi, and avows his fascination with Western capitalism (i.e. the sight of Paris).
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The Fat and the Lean (French: Le Gros et le maigre) is a short silent, comic film written and directed by Roman Polanski in 1961. Polanski shot this short film just after graduating from The National Film School in Łódź in 1959; it was made in France and was Polanski's last film before the international breakthrough of his 1962 debut feature ...
[The Fat and the Lean is] certainly an early demonstration of Polanski's continuing gift for finding the common ground between apparently unlinkable genres (avantgarde tragedy and two-reel...
The Fat and the Lean is a short silent, comic film written and directed by Roman Polanski in 1961. Polanski shot this short film just after graduating from The National Film School in Łódź in 1959; it was made in France and was Polanski's last film before the international breakthrough of his 1962 debut feature, Knife in the Water.
Roman Polanski's early, student, surrealist film The Fat and the Lean is an excellent film with a deeper meaning. The story is of a young slave who plays music for his master, along with doing other physical labor. He longs to escape to Paris, but is trapped by the master.
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The Fat and the Lean. Directed by Roman Polanski • 1961 • France. Polanski directed this 15-minute black-and-white short just after completing film school. The film features the music of Krzysztof Komeda, who composed the scores for all but one of the director’s films between TWO MEN AND A WARDROBE and ROSEMARY’S BABY (1968). Directed ...
A small and thin barefoot slave (played by Polanski) plays a flute and beats a drum to entertain his large master who rocks in a rocking chair in front of his mansion. The slave jumps and leaps like a madman, wipes his master's brow, feeds him, washes his feet, shades him from the sun with an umbrella and holds a urinal for him.
Mar 6, 2015 · In wake of the objections, Polanski and his first wife, Barbara Kwiatkowska, moved to France where he made two additional shorts: The Fat and the Lean (1961), with André Katelbach as a slovenly lazy man and Polanski as his jester and servant, and Mammals (1962), a slapstick comedy with two men alienated in a snow-covered landscape. The ...
