i come to this film after have watch wajda ash and diamond and which i consider to be one of the fine film i have see . however and man of marble be just too quirky for me and leave me a bit perplexed . the story concern a young film student and know here only a agnieszka and who decide to produce a documentary on one mateusz birkut a her graduation project . birkut be an idealistic bricklayer who rise to the status of post wwii hero by way of display superior efficiency and strength . his innovation of how to use a small team to accomplish improve production come to be so well recognize that he would tour the country set up such team . the film time slice from the 1970s and when agnieszka be make her film and to previous time and all the way back to mock documentary footage of birkut in the 1950s . the presentation be anything but flatter to the communist party and it be astound the wajda be able to get this make in a time when the communist be still in power in poland . the story must be autobiographical to some extent and since we see agnieszka encounter political opposition to her dig too deeply into the past try to reconstruct birkut life and figure out why he essentially drop from the scene after have be so highly visible while there be also a famous film director in the movie whom we get to know well . there be many scene that have the quality of a dream and but yet seem like they be suppose to be take for real . for example and one scene have burkit friend witek go into a small office of a party bos and and when burkit enter the office some time later there be no sign of witek . if this be to be take a some sort of kafkaesque event and then burkit would have make no remark on the mysterious disappearance and but he express the surprise that any normal person would have . i do not know what to make of such scene . agnieszka facial expression and body movement be often quite odd and border on the bizarre and and they accentuate the feeling of unreality i have that become increasingly more pronounced a the movie progress . the collage of agnieszka interview and mock documentary footage and scene from burkit life and scene from agnieszka own life and and an inappropriate musical score do not coalesce for me .