ONE WEEK
One Week
(Metro Pictures Corp., USA, 1920)
dir., script: Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline; photog.: Elgin Lessley
cast: Buster Keaton (The Groom), Sybil Seely (The Bride), Joe Roberts (Piano Mover);
DCP, 23’; bw; intertitles: EN, subtitles: PL; restored 2015; source: Lobster Films
A young couple receives a self-assembly house as a wedding gift but, unfortunately, a malicious love rival changes the numbers on the boxes needed to build it. The final effect is surprising...
One Week – which Keaton considered to be his first fully original work - provides him with the opportunity to display his full range of acrobatic skills and choreographic virtuosity. A good comedy scene requires more calculations and preparation than the work of an engineer, he used to say, and he always planned each gag with mathematical precision. Before moving into film, he spent several years building a stage career – juggling, appearing in a vaudeville act and performing as a human cannon ball. He learnt how to fall, and this film has plenty of those – big and small falls, but ones he could always get up from.
introduction to the movie: Iga Harasimowicz
section: TRAVELS BIG AND SMALL
music by: Albert Karch
SATURDAY | OCTOBER 23
15:00 | screening room: MAŁA CZARNA
presented with: The Electric House
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ONE WEEK, source: Lobster Films
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ONE WEEK, source: Lobster Films