Camera Buff (1979)

Why so much hype?

Very disappointed :(

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

Camera Buff (Polish: "Amator" ("Amateur")) (1979) Life-changing hobby, Man who had or has it all? Stuhr's performance shines. As avid photographer, 7 Could relate to passion's cost. 7 Tanka, literally "short poem", is a form of poetry consisting of five lines, unrhymed, with the 5-7-5-7-7 syllable format. #Tanka #PoemReview

I really liked this film because it dared to be different and it was an excellent study of psychology. This movie was about a Polish man who scraped together his money in order to by an 8mm camera to film his new baby. However, shortly after getting the camera and beginning filming his wife and child, he gets really hooked on making his little films--and seems to film almost everything around him. At first, it's fun, but then it becomes an obsession. In the process, instead of LIVING and EXPERIENCING life with his little family, he is filming them in a very detached way. However, he is so into the filming that he hardly recognizes his wife's growing anger over that ^&@#*^@! camera! Then, when his boss sees him filming and asks him to make a film for the company, his problem grows by leaps and bounds. He seems to see himself as the next great documentary maker and begins to enter competitions and send his films to the television network. To his wife's chagrin, he receives positive reviews and by this point she's lost him--they have no real life together. Where the film goes from there I will leave for you to watch. It is a fascinating psychological study of a man and his obsession--as well as the impact this ultimately has on others around him. An excellent film.

This Kieslowski drama, made prior to his great fame in the West, is the initially comic story of a man whose unfortunate acquisition of a movie camera makes him an observer, rather than a participant, in his own life. So begins his downward spiral into personal tragedy. Kafka stories are also amusing at the beginning.The great Polish actor Jerzy Stuhr plays the man.To me, the emblematic final shot of this film rivals that of Truffaut's "Les quatre cents coups".

It's difficult to write something about this film, only because it is unbelievable; it's so good that it almost couldn't exist. The story is about a man who has a usual life: a wife, an employee... and when he buys a camera to register his daughter's birth he discovers a new world. He changes into a man who lives only for his movies, his objectives and everything else change. The most important thing is to make films. Beyond that he involves himself with the problems of the factory where he works and his films try to show those and because of his involvement he'll have some problems. The film is principally about movies about that people who love movies, special people...