Sometimes, the briefest answers can reveal much about a person. Each week, someone answers SCREEN COMMENT’s Proust questionaire. Mexican-born Polish actor Alicja Bachleda was recently seen in Marko Kreutzpaintner’s Trade (2007) and previously appeared in Andrzej Wajda’s Pan Tadeusz and Lionel Baier’s Comme Des Voleurs: What’s your current state of mind Curious. What’s your biggest quality? Ambition. What’s your biggest flaw? Ambition. Your favorite quality in a man? Sensibility and virtue. Your favorite quality in a woman? Dignity. What is your biggest success in life? That’s still ahead of me. Who is your favorite painter? Marc Chagall. Who’s your favorite director? Krzysztof Kieslowski, Giuseppe Tornatore. Name your cult movie? Cinema Paradiso. What’s playing in your sound-system now? Terry Callier. What do you hate more than anything? Inequity. What’s your favorite quote? It’s in Polish, it would lose in translation. How would you like to die? With peace of heart and mind. Alicja, can you mention which film you are working next? There are few projects, but I’m too superstitious to talk about them yet.

