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"Nowa ksiazka" or "The New Book" is a 10-minute short film from 40 years ago written and directed by Polish filmmaker Zbigniew Rybczynski a couple years before his work on the cult classic "Angst" and before his Academy Award win. However, in his work here, you can already see his approach to film. He loved depicting several happenings that have (at least partially) a connection to each other, a style he also used in several of his other works (at least the ones I have seen), including his Oscar-winning "Tango". In terms of "The New Book" you probably have to watch this one 9 times in order to fully understand what exactly is going on, probably more times in order to fit the puzzle of 9 segments together. Unfortunately, this is not a watch exciting enough to watch it more than once really and that is already more than enough, even if you hardly understand at all what is going on. No surprise his style here was not taken up by other filmmaker in the following years. It's nowhere near Rybczynski's best and I cannot recommend it.