Have you heard about his new documentary about Wisława Szymborska? I haven’t had a chance to watch it, so I can’t give you a proper review, but from what I’m hearing and reading about it, it certainly sounds very interesting. It’s titled – “Sometimes Life is Bearable”, directed by Katarzyna Kolenda-Zaleska.

Now, I’ll be the first one to admit, I am not a fan of poetry, and as tragic as it may seem to my fellow Poles, I haven’t read any of Szymborska’s poems. It’s just not my thing. But she is famous and she got the Nobel Prize in literature in 1996.

I am very interested in seeing the movie, because I don’t know anything about Szymborska as a person. And what I’m reading sometimes gives me a very skewed image of her as a person, and not always very flattering at that.

Anyway, here is the news blurb about the documentary (as a pdf), it’s in English, so go ahead, read it and tell me what you think.

And if you saw the movie, by all means, do tell us what your impression of it was.

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