Never Gonna Snow Again (2020)
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Country: POL/GER/NL
Technical: col/2.35:1 116m
Director: Małgorzata Szumowska, Michal Englert
Cast: Alec Utgoff, Maja Ostaszewska, Agata Kulesza, Weronika Rosati, Lukasz Simlat
Synopsis:
Out of the Taiga and into a gated Polish community comes Zhenia, the masseur with the healing hands and yoga-inspired patter to match. Everyone seems to know him and place great value on his presence, but at night he returns to a sparsely furnished flat in the city where he is haunted by nightly apparitions and staked out by the secret police.
Review:
A mesmerising film with a range of themes that enrich it rather than overwhelm it: climate change and the value of trees, the Theorem motif of the outsider who transforms the lives of those he touches, a requiem for Chernobyl and its victims, the status of rich versus poor in the post-Communist Eastern Bloc, the continued role of surveillance. Name-checking Eyes Wide Shut, Under the Skin, A Clockwork Orange and Les choristes, the directors apply lashings of style to their storytelling, and end on an enigma.
(Sniegu juz nigdy nie będzie)
Country: POL/GER/NL
Technical: col/2.35:1 116m
Director: Małgorzata Szumowska, Michal Englert
Cast: Alec Utgoff, Maja Ostaszewska, Agata Kulesza, Weronika Rosati, Lukasz Simlat
Synopsis:
Out of the Taiga and into a gated Polish community comes Zhenia, the masseur with the healing hands and yoga-inspired patter to match. Everyone seems to know him and place great value on his presence, but at night he returns to a sparsely furnished flat in the city where he is haunted by nightly apparitions and staked out by the secret police.
Review:
A mesmerising film with a range of themes that enrich it rather than overwhelm it: climate change and the value of trees, the Theorem motif of the outsider who transforms the lives of those he touches, a requiem for Chernobyl and its victims, the status of rich versus poor in the post-Communist Eastern Bloc, the continued role of surveillance. Name-checking Eyes Wide Shut, Under the Skin, A Clockwork Orange and Les choristes, the directors apply lashings of style to their storytelling, and end on an enigma.
(Sniegu juz nigdy nie będzie)
Country: POL/GER/NL
Technical: col/2.35:1 116m
Director: Małgorzata Szumowska, Michal Englert
Cast: Alec Utgoff, Maja Ostaszewska, Agata Kulesza, Weronika Rosati, Lukasz Simlat
Synopsis:
Out of the Taiga and into a gated Polish community comes Zhenia, the masseur with the healing hands and yoga-inspired patter to match. Everyone seems to know him and place great value on his presence, but at night he returns to a sparsely furnished flat in the city where he is haunted by nightly apparitions and staked out by the secret police.
Review:
A mesmerising film with a range of themes that enrich it rather than overwhelm it: climate change and the value of trees, the Theorem motif of the outsider who transforms the lives of those he touches, a requiem for Chernobyl and its victims, the status of rich versus poor in the post-Communist Eastern Bloc, the continued role of surveillance. Name-checking Eyes Wide Shut, Under the Skin, A Clockwork Orange and Les choristes, the directors apply lashings of style to their storytelling, and end on an enigma.