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MichaelB wrote: Wed Sep 03, 2025 11:25 am

brundlefly wrote: Wed Sep 03, 2025 10:58 am The second adaptation of this story Radiance has released this year, after Piotr Dumała's gorgeous "Łagodna" in the Essential Polish Animation collection.

The third if you count Sergei Loznitsa's A Gentle Creature, which Fran released when Arrow Academy was still a going concern.

I first watched the Loznitsa film years ago, and before reading the story and watching the Bresson.
From what I remember its completely unrelated? Beyond the similar title.

It was directly inspired by the Dostoevsky novella (the title isn't just "similar", it's identical across multiple languages: Krotkaya, Une Femme Douce, A Gentle Creature), but in terms of psychological theme rather than narrative detail—instead of being about a woman's relationship with an obliviously abusive man, it's about a woman's relationship with an obliviously abusive state that similarly thwarts all her attempts at improving her lot in life.

The Criterion Awards final tally usually kicks off a shopping spree for me, because y'all have such great taste, and I am a relative Newbie.

Oh.

This is Region B.