‘Essential Killing’ could have been a landmark examination of primal humanity
Essential Killing Directed by Jerzy Skolimowski 2010, Poland/Norway/Ireland/Hungary Polish cinema has long been defined as a cinema of moral concern, with films like Andrzej Wajda’s Ashes and Diamonds (1958) and Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Three Colours Trilogy (1993-1994) at its centre. Jerzy Skolimowski’s latest film, Essential Killing, starring the eternally polarizing Vincent Gallo, is a searingly relentless …