Illumination (Iluminacja)
Mixing together a fictional story with statistics and documentary footage, Zanussi's intellectually probing, mosaic-like film examines the dialectical relationships between thought and emotion; mind and body; science and art; the rational and the merely instinctive.
A young physics graduate seeking clarification of the certainty of things is shaken by a turbulent romantic relationship and the sudden death of a friend.
A deeply philosophical and melancholy account of the road to enlightenment.