Ingestion: Andrzej Wajda’s Kanał and the Dissolution of the Warsaw Insurgency

|Victoria Breshears| War films usually batter the senses with concussive noise from above, but Andrzej Wajda’s Kanal smothers them from below. The true horror begins only after conventional battlefield noises disappear, replaced by the wet, suctioning drag of submerged boots, frantic… Continue reading