Pora Umierać (Time To Die)

"Pora Umierać (Time To Die)" (2007/Poland)
Synopsis
Aniela, is as much a sprightly, unyielding relic of the past as the big dacha-style house surrounded by tall trees in which she lives alone with her impetuous dog, Philadelphia. Across the way, she disapprovingly observes a boorish fat nouveau-riche man in a big new house, and over in a corner, a shabbier building occupied by a struggling music school, everybody wants Aniela's house or her land. When nouveau-riche neighbors, aided by her cold-hearted son, conspire to gain her property, she finds a way to outsmart them.

The heroine was a very aged woman and she lived in an old house for decades. I thought she was energetic, but she knew that it was near the end of her life.
She reminisced her memories of love, wedding, and her young son around the house. The scenes were projected beyond the old glass doors. They were so beautiful. Although this movie was black and white but I felt the colors of her memories one by one.
She was also a charming woman, but people around her, even her son, did not know about the goodness in her. She might be so lonely. She lived throuth memories.
This movie seems sad story and when we grow old we will feel same loneliness she felt . So I was sympathetic to her feelings.
Neighbors had wanted her big home land. She was not greedy. She just wanted to keep her memories.
Anyway the music of the movie is stunning and the heroine, Danuta Szaflarska's acting is so outstanding. (She is 96 years old and still active!) Everything of the movie can be compared to a poem.

My rating:★★★