The ’80s haunted this year’s Polish Film Festival, which is billed by its organizers as one of the oldest film events in Europe.
The film tends to literalize its theme of unfulfilled desire by having characters explicitly lament their lost pasts.
Jerzy Skolimowski fetishizes objects, imbuing them with a kind of debauchedly contemporary totemic power.
Those expecting it to be one of To’s manic comedies will instead be met with arguably his most dour drama.
Pawel Pawlikowski shows great empathy toward the idea of illusions as a way of attaining emotional stability in even the most brutal terrain.