Andrzej Wajda turned ninety in 2016, and he sat down to talk about his movies. This meant talking about himself, his fights with censorship, the head of the Polish film bureau who lost his job because he thought the country could make a few bucks off one of Wadja's movie, and his revolutionary impulses. For him, this did not mean waving the red flag of communism, but of telling the truth.
The essence of success in the arts is doing something no one else has done before, and in doing that, your choices reveal more about you than your subject. In this 95-minute documentary, Wadja talks and talks. Perhaps he has edited the past a little to make himself braver. Perhaps Andrzej Wolski, who directed this, or his editor has. It's still an entertaining and informative film about one of Poland's important film directors.