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Mosquito State (2020)
"The Fly" meets "Big Short", only worse. Much worse.
"The Fly" meets "Big Short", only worse. Much worse. Sorry, but this sums up this movie. Only cinematography saves it from one-star rating.
Lekcja milosci (2019)
Touching and moving
I cannot understand why the ratings for this film are so low (5.8 at the time of writing this review). It is probably not a masterpiece of realization (cinematography, sound), but it is a poignant story about the recovery of one's own identity by an adult, a clear voice in defense of women's right to independence from conservative norms and a portrait of the world of elderly people, too often pushed into the role of helpless old people.
Above all, it is a touching and moving meeting with Jola, with her friends, and such an even sporting cheer for her chance of a new relationship with a partner who is the first in her life to respect the human being and not just use her gender to achieve head of family status.
After the film, my wife and I talked for an hour about this story. I recommend that you watch it and meet Jola too.
Nie zmieniaj tematu (2019)
This movie fails to deliver so much
I can't understand honoring this film with a grand prize of the Short Film Competition during recent Polish Film Festival. If the main protagonist, ostracised by his environment, for having said a few words too much, cuts his own tongue off demonstratively, we are dealing with graphomania, not a piece of art.
Boze Cialo (2019)
The God, the Bad and the Ugliness
This film could easily slide into an anecdote about a disguise that causes real change. However, it is a perfectly told film that asks important questions about the place of spirituality in a person's life, and about the chance to make amends. Contrary to being embedded in the reality of the Catholic Church in Poland, it is a universal challenge for viewers who are not afraid to check whether a bad person can do good things and what is the value of spiritual transformation committed for low motives. Greatly played by a couple of young, yet experienced actors Eliza Rycembel and Bartosz Bielenia, while the rest of the cast creates a perfect background for the small-town world, which, although on the outskirts, is not a province.
Brzuch straszliwej maszyny, wykrwawiajacej sie na smierc (2019)
Horrors of war and... parenting
A story about parental love set in the realm of war. The film perfectly avoids crying tones and duplication of clichés (e.g. a Soviet partisan can afford a human impulse towards a Pole). Excellently photographed and realized. An outstanding leading role of the father, interpreted by Jaroslaw Witaszczyk.
Krzyzówka (2019)
Touching!
A story about solving a crossword. Seemingly a series of humorous novels that lead to a moving finale. A great idea, brilliantly accomplished.
Supernova (2019)
Impressive pacing
An engaging film reportage from the scene of the car accident, which is the beginning of a fatal chain of events. Surprisingly precisely executed, and against this background, the finale is somewhat easy.
Pan T. (2019)
Amazingly stylish
A film full of black humor and bathed in absurdity. It may be difficult for viewers who do not know Polish history from the early 1950s or the situation of Leopold Tyrmand, a writer whose biography was a base for the adventures of the titlular Mr. T. However, it is a film worth seeing, a great fun to track references, allusions, to admire acting episodes or multi-layered jokes. Mandatory for those who have read the Tyrmand novel "The Bad one" and are not afraid of the fantasy about what it would have been like if it had the title "The Good one".
Mr. T. tries to publish his novel, but having constant problems with publishers, he has to make a living by giving tutoring. She becomes the Pygmalion of his female student, beautiful but not very volatile. He fantasizes about a terrorist attack on Warsaw, meets the communist leader Bierut and causes a transformation in his neighbour - an unhappy informant of the secret police.
Dovlatov (2018)
Biography of non-fulfilment but not bitterness
It's not an easy movie for the viewer. However, it is an addictive cinema. The film is a biography of a writer who did not live to see his work published during his lifetime, so it focuses on impotence, unfulfillment and bitterness. A few days from Dovlatov's life, which we observe on the screen, is therefore a pretext for showing his everyday work - the attempts to publish a text instead of a little ambitious journalistic texts, showing his family and friends, the bohemian environment of Leningrad / St. Petersburg.
The film has a very calm rhythm, it is beautifully photographed and well played. The central figure is the ubiquitous Milan Maric (strikingly similar to Sergei Dovlatov), but although he is present on the screen in almost every scene, he does not dominate history and other characters.
Definitely worth seeing is a film for all those who are interested in showing the creative process on screen or in the reality of life in Soviet Russia.