Dom starych kobiet

A film about old age. Jan Lomnicki made an impression of the life of elder people who, far from their relatives and friends, are facing their final days. This has resulted in a number of portraits in which the traces of happy as well as sad experiences, of memories that have clung to these people's minds can be perceived. The images have dramatic overtones that have directly been taken from reality. The conventional means used by the filmmaker give the film a symbolic, rather than a documentary meaning. The dejected atmosphere, intensified by the unrelenting ticking away of the time, is evoked through repeated images, like the chorus of a song, the beating of a clock, candles dying out and shadows on a wall. (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam)