Film after film: Żeby nie było śladów (Leave No Traces, dir. Jan P. Matuszyński, 2021)
It's a disappointingly sterile chronicle of a significant journalist study of a political cover-up of a state-approved murder of a young adult in the early 1980s in Poland. So disappointing that I don't even want to cut the previous sentence into better syntax. Korzeniak is a tricky standout, since she is the only cast member who chooses a radically different acting mode than the others by downplaying, stuttering, and almost disappearing into her trauma. It's an impressive and infuriating performance. The others run a more predictable game, with Grochowska and Konieczna being the standouts. My biggest sigh goes to Zietek, who, after a small yet star-turning supporting role in Corpus Christi, was only an okay lead of Operation Hyacynth and here is a bit less than okay. But again this film is a syndrome of what seems to be a more global turn for the mainstream Polish cinema of the recent 3-4 years, one that's away from charisma and singularity.
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Sweat
directed by Magnus von Horn, 2020
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Recensie Sweat ★★★1/2 - vanaf 4-2 te zien op @IFFR en vanaf 15-4 in de bioscoop
Velen zien je, maar ondertussen ziet niemand je echt. Prima film over een enge, eenzame en bikkelharde wereld!
@ImagineFilmNL #Sweat #IFFR #IFFR2021
De dramafilm Sweat gaat over fitnessinfluencer Sylwia. Hoewel ze succesvol is en veel volgers heeft op de sociale media, is ze diep van binnen ongelukkig. Wat wij van Sweat vinden, lees je in onze recensie.
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Corpus Christi (Boże Ciało) (2019) Jan Komasa
July 4th 2020
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Boże Ciało (2019) – Movie #127
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#618 #Boze Cialo (Corpus Christi)
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128. Boze Cialo / Corpus Christi
Jan Komasa -- 2019 | Poland | 7.5
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Boże Ciało Jana Komasy: film już doceniony w Gdyni i Wenecji, polski kandydat do Oskara. To, naszym zdaniem, najlepszy, jak dotąd, film Jana Komasy.
Opowieść to fascynująca, przewrotna i refleksyjna. Paradoksalna i trochę prowokacyjna.
Historia chłopaka, który wszystko, co teraz chce zbudować, to co dobrego ma się zdarzyć w jego życiu, buduje na grzechu kłamstwa.
Paradoksalnie, to co wydaje się niemożliwe, niewiarygodne jest świetnym punktem wyjścia do opowieści jak można się zmienić, jak czynić dobro i jak można zmienić innych.
Film o tym, jacy jesteśmy, jak wpływa na nas otoczenie, jak się zmieniamy, ale i o religii, kontakcie z wiernymi.
Więcej w naszej recenzji, do obejrzenia której zachęcamy.
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Film after film: Sweat (dir. Magnus von Horn, 2020)
There's a surprising strength in this film's predictability about its protagonist's easy characterization: a trend-setter fitness guru, lonely at heart and stalked by a creepy follower. Perhaps it's the tone, steadily observational and barely exploitative, that grounds and calibrates its performances, centered around Kolesnik. The night-set climax hints at a possibility of a different movie, darker, stranger, and less easily palpable.
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