PARC AT MIDNIGHT: STAFF PICKSSelected by Laura, customer service staff member : “While the film world has its eyes fixed on Nolan’s The Odyssey, I wanted to propose a different kind of adventure. Stranger, riskier, maybe a little more rough around the edges. I also like the idea of highlighting a film that hasn’t had an easy journey. On the Silver Globe was halted by censorship and spent years in limbo before finally being shown to audiences. At a time when the world sometimes feels like it is closing in on itself, and authoritarian reflexes are reappearing in many places, I find it comforting to celebrate a work that refused to disappear. Maybe that’s also what midnight cinema is all about: giving a second life — and, above all, a voice — to films considered too strange, too ambitious, or too unsettling.!”Synopsis: A team of astronauts land on an inhabitable planet and form a society. Many years later, a single astronaut is sent to the planet and becomes a messiah.“It’s rarely less than mesmerizing in its strangeness, and in its kinetic intensity. The film is a staggering feat of mise en scène: heaven knows how many hundreds or thousands of extras are involved, most of them accoutred in fanciful costumes by Magdalena Teslawska, redolent of some avant-garde hippie carnival. (...) Both clothing and makeup have a remarkable tactility: we become very aware of the texture of rubber, feathers, fabric, prosthetic scars, and peeling face paint. (...) Then there’s Andrzej Jaroszewicz’s extraordinary camerawork, using extreme wide-angle lenses much of the time, and constantly moving. (...) We’re constantly reminded that we’re watching cinema.” (FILM COMMENT)