In the winter of 1981/82, a Polish director travels to Switzerland, with the aim of staging an elaborate film production featuring tableaux vivants based on masterpieces selected from the history of European fine art. While there, the visiting filmmaker gets to know a local female factory worker (Isabelle Huppert) who is, herself, plotting to organise a strike, with the aid of the bougie owner of a nearby hotel. The fragmentary narrative of PASSION, realised in the shadow of the suppression of the Solidarność movement, reflects the unfinished nature of the film-within-a-film.
In the winter of 1981/82, a Polish director travels to Switzerland, with the aim of staging an elaborate film production featuring tableaux vivants based on masterpieces selected from the history of European fine art. While there, the visiting filmmaker gets to know a local female factory worker (Isabelle Huppert) who is, herself, plotting to organise a strike, with the aid of the bougie owner of a nearby hotel. The fragmentary narrative of PASSION, realised in the shadow of the suppression of the Solidarność movement, reflects the unfinished nature of the film-within-a-film.
