Directed by Jerzy Skolimowski, Poland. Strange isn’t it, how the avant garde dates so horribly? Here’s a really dreadful example of Polish New Wave cinema from the director who would later make DEEP END (1970) and THE SHOUT (1978). WALKOVER is seventy four minutes of pointlessness about a young man (played by Skolimowski himself) who meets up with a woman and later is involved in a boxing match. It’s a nicely photographed but, ultimately, excruciatingly bland mish-mash of New Wave tropes. Online, you can find the usual pseudish (and embarrassing) attempts to give this meaningless film meaning. I suppose the senseless has always been mistaken for the cryptically significant. 1/5.
MOVIES THAT DIE SCREAMING 