FILMEX REVIEWS

Following is a partial list of films screening today at the Mann’s Westwood Triplex.

‘EVERY PICTURE TELLS A STORY’ Great Britain, 1984, 82 minutes 12:30 p.m. and 7:15 p.m.

A loving, low-key biography by James Scott (who won a 1983 Oscar for “A Shocking Accident,” a short adapted from a Graham Greene story) of the childhood and youth of his father, eminent painter William Scott. The Scotts were a large Irish Protestant family of artisans, impoverished but willing to nurture William’s talent early on. A superb evocation of time and place, punctuated by the paintings they inspired. ‘THE YEAR OF THE QUIET SUN’ Poland/U.S.A./Germany, 1984 , 107 minutes 2:45 p.m. and 9:45 p.m .

With little fanfare esteemed film maker Krzysztof Zanussi returned to his beleagured homeland last year and succeeded in what seemed impossible in these times: a U.S.-Polish co-production (with West Germany involved as well). The result is his most romantic film, a beautiful, heart-wrenching love story between a Polish woman (the splendid Maya Komorowska) and an American soldier (Scott Wilson, also outstanding) who meet in the chaotic, treacherous aftermath of World War II. A wise and eloquent contemplation of the nature of love, “The Year of the Quiet Sun” took the grand prize at Venice last year.

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