One of director Jerzy Skolimowski’s most acclaimed films, MOONLIGHTING (1982)—now playing on the Criterion Channel—is a cunningly observed, darkly funny look at displacement and the everyday effects of political repression told through the eyes of Nowak (a brilliant Jeremy Irons), a Polish electrician brought to London illegally with a crew of fellow countrymen in order to renovate the home of a Polish official. When the turbulence of the Solidarity movement leads to an authoritarian crackdown back home in Poland, Nowak suddenly finds himself in a precarious position—exiled in an unfamiliar land and forced to resort to petty crime in order to keep himself and his fellow workers afloat.