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Struggle: The Life and Lost Art of Szukalski (2018) is a English movie. Irek Dobrowolski has directed this movie. Stanislav Szukalski,Glenn Bray,Robert Williams,Suzanne Williams are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2018. Struggle: The Life and Lost Art of Szukalski (2018) is considered one of the best Documentary movie in India and around the world.
In old Betamax footage, the Polish-American artist Stanislav Szukalski (1893-1987) speaks animatedly about his life and work. Art aficionado Glenn Bray filmed his elderly friend in the last years of his life to document his remarkable career and personality before it was too late. In this wide-ranging portrait, Bray explains how he met Szukalski by chance in 1971 when he came across one of his expressionist drawings and discovered that its maker lived only a few miles away from him. The man leading a modest, anonymous life in Burbank, California turned out to have been a well-known avant-garde artist in Chicago and pre-war Poland. Szukalski created a mythology entirely of his own in his drawings and paintings, as well as an extensive manuscript. After his return to the United States, a group of artists and art lovers gathered around Szukalski, among them George DiCaprio and his son Leonardo, who jointly produced this documentary. The interviews and archive footage tell the ...
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Top Notch Documentary
A very thorough documentary about a man who lived a remarkable life. I did not know that Leonardo DiCaprio and his father were producers until the credits rolled. Szukalski was an artistic genius who was eccentric from a very young age. He was also controversial. A must watch.
Best documentary I have seen in a while
This is a multilayered documentary; it's a story of a brilliant artist but also of complexity of human nature and how it transforms if exposed to different events. Szukalski is no doubt a great artist but he is a human foremost with all the vices and virtues, a very interesting human with amazing imagination and very unusual outlook on life and all its aspects. I like the way the focus shifted from lighthearted narrating in the beginning to more serious aspects of life and its meanders in later stages of the movie followed by a very moving end. It is definitely worth watching.
Very interesting.
This doco left me in a unusual mood after viewing. Not quite sure what the mood is. I only just finished it. Rarely do i just watch something these days without looking up abit about it before jumping in. But the short netflix preview piqued my interested enough that i just started it right then and there. Im really glad i did. As someone who gave up art around 10 years ago and is trying to find a rhythm to get back into it again, i found this quite inspiring. That masters like this live among us, unnoticed by the masses. Is humbling and fascinating.
Unknown genius
Who knew? I definitely did not. A hidden gem of a man. A mind free of influence. One who was allowed to do whatever he wanted. He followed his heart and passion. He learned as he went along in art and life. Big thank you to DiCaprio Sr. and Jr. Perhaps movie about Enigma/Rejewski next? Hint.
It shakes and brings to life the art in yourself.
I loved it. Obviusly i have to do my own research of this man and see him in different lights, but as i saw the documentary i was delighted in its objectivity. Even one of his friends, who is also one of the documentary's producer, talks about the betrayal he felt when they found about some aspects of the man he thought he new. As for the man itself, I was amazed by this unkown genius whose art made me discover my own capacity to appreciate and love art in ways i never knew i could. I was also sad to hear how he was a bigot in his pre-waf life but with the hope that he had the power to change and discard those foul beliefs at some point in his life. Nonetheless his art and his mind were that of a singular man with unique skill and im glad his work is coming out of the darkness and to have the opportunity to enjoy it myself.