A Woman Alone review – a stylised portrait of contemporary financial precarity

A Woman Alone review – a stylised portrait of contemporary financial precarity

Malta festival, PolandThis updating of Agnieszka Holland’s 1981 film about a struggling single mother suggests life under capitalist consumerism is no easier than it was under communismAgnieszka Holland’s 1981 film A Woman Alone may be viewed as an indictment of communist Poland for its story of an impoverished single mother who is comprehensively failed by the state – and was banned in the country for many years as a result. The Polish-born fil…