"I understand the power of bureaucratic ambush."

Agnieszka Holland and the normalisation of TV

In 1965, when she was 16 years old, Agnieszka Holland made a list. “Waves of creative energy were coming from France, from Great Britain from America,” she says. “From Czechoslovakia, from the Soviet Union, from Hungary, Japan. I was making a list of the films I liked the most and it was 200 titles. Today if I find two or three I’m happy.” 

As a director…