Reviews of AFI Festival Movies

Following are reviews for the American Film Institute Film Festival. All screenings are at the Cineplex Odeon Century Plaza Cinemas unless otherwise indicated.

‘Chronicles of Love Affairs’

Poland, 1985, 118 minutes , 8 p.m . Andrzej Wajda’s first Polish film since the pro-Solidarity “Man of Iron” is perhaps his most conventional. A typically lyrical treatment of star-crossed lovers on the eve of World War II, steeped in a dark, fatalistic sense of foreboding. It helps to know that the story, adapted by Tadeusz Konwicki from his novel, is set in Lithuania, although it’s unstated.