Original audio with Polish subtitles.
Free admission.
"Gangi Nowego Jorku" ("Gangs of New York"), directed by Martin Scorsese, running time: 167’, 2002.
"Gangi Nowego Jorku" ("Gangs of New York") is Martin Scorsese’s epic silver screen spectacle. The film makes another worthy addition to the auteur’s already impressive catalogue. As previously, the 2002 offering is typified by a cross-over approach. On the one hand, the film offers an action-packed tale of pioneering American gangs; on the other, the movie provides us with a finely written and superbly acted conflict between two protagonists and simultaneously principal adversaries of “Gangs of New York”.
On a broader plane, the film’s storyline treats of the cut-throat beginnings of the United States of America, construed and constructed as a country founded and further built by immigrants, coming to the New World from diverse countries and subsequently working hard so as to enable the generations to come to call the continent their home.
As always, Scorsese does not disappoint with regard to his casting choices, inviting onto the big screen among others Leonardo DiCaprio, Cameron Diaz and Liam Neeson. However, all of them are dwarfed by the virtuosity of Daniel Day-Lewis (Bill the Butcher), whose performance was universally praised, including an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor.