Camouflage

LibertyCapz

Definitely my favorite (up until now) of what I've seen of Zanussi's films. The way he takes something as "simple" as the clashing of different moral and sociopolitical philosophies and builds an entire film around that concept makes his films seem so precise and hard hitting. Of what I've seen (just what's been shown on Mubi the last month) it seems his films are mostly dialogue driven, which I'm totally fine with.

David Grillo

Science is how we overcome human faculty.

Jason

What at first struck me as being a kind of comic Trotskyite nightmare of overlapping voices and contention unto naught very quickly began to strike me, despite the obviously unique particulars of time and place, as something much more universal and perhaps even timely. CAMOUFLAGE could almost be repurposed to take place at contemporary Berkley. Cynicism may be sanity in the face microfactionalist dissonance.

dionysus67

Excellent Zanussi specimen. Maybe not so cinematic as other films but definitely compelling in the dissection of value-wars and cultural lags between students-faculty and across the latter. Acted with conviction it discloses the camouflage of materialism in idealism and vice versa. The dramatic 'reconciliation' must, as in all dialectics, involve struggle and the riveting finale conjures it with great force!

Bilouaustria

In comparison with Zanussi´s earlier "The structure of crystals", which offers some similarities (opposition of two scholars, love-hate relationship), the conclusion is bitter : you can not exactly tell who "wins" in the previous one but eight years later, it is clearly cynicism that dominates in Poland. Visually, it is Zanussi´s less captivating work. The way the main character gets broken is interesting though.

josé neves

PC. A film that follows direct and directly its ideological program without making the interruptions or short circuits that the previous ones did or tried to establish. It serves as a discursive anti-stablishment movement but serves little the cinematographic cause, unlike some Zanussi's magnificent earlier and later films. Socialist naturalism. The final two frames recovers the memory of his appellant geometry.

Wee Hunk

It's a bit easy to characterize this as a battle of idealism against cynicism. Cynicism has less to do with the age of the person, and more about a kind of moral laziness. It's more about manipulation. I saw this movie as a battle between the older man trying to use the younger man as a pawn in his games.

Mtume Gant

The first Zanussi I ever watched and it floored me. He takes a radical spin on the cat and mouse genre making it a twisted web of “ethics” that expose our hypocrisies. Grade A stuff.