Product: Pan Tadeusz (2000)
Rating: 1.0
Pan Tadeusz
This movie appears to have no rating but I wouldn't recommend watching it for those who have any sense of morals and decency and are Christian. The description on the box does give a clue however. It mentions lusty trysts and that is indeed what occurs here. Tadeusz appears to be lusting after Telimena who is in turn is lusting after him. You can see that she gives him the key to her room and in the middle of the night he goes in to her. Just about throughout the whole movie, this Telemina wears about the lowest cut dress she can get away with. Even worse, in one scene the camera zooms in on her bosom to emphasize the lust of Tadeusz and her seductive dress. Here is a woman who is old enough to be his mother. Then this Tadeusz dumps her for the much younger (14 year old!) Zosia and goes off and marries her in the end. As a Polish-American, I am embarrassed that this is the best that an epic poem by Adam Mickiewicz can produce assuming that the movie is faithful to the book. The family feud is an embarrassment also where the Warden had nothing on his mind but rage and revenge for the Slopica family. This feud leads to almost bloodshed but later there is bloodshed as the Poles and the Russians mindlessly slaughter each because of an insult to the Major of the Russian troops. I gave it one star for its immodesty, otherwise I would have rated it higher. I would give it zeros stars if I could. It seems that movie makers can't produce much of anything nowadays if it doesn't have sex or violence in it.