Directed by:
Wojciech SmarzowskiScreenplay:
Wojciech SmarzowskiCinematography:
Tomasz MadejskiComposer:
Mikolaj TrzaskaCast:
Robert Więckiewicz, Marcin Dorocinski, Jacek Braciak, Kinga Preis, Agata Kulesza, Andrzej Grabowski, Marian Dziedziel, Eryk Lubos, Arkadiusz Jakubik (more)Plots(1)
The film might seem as a "traditional" story of an alcoholic at first, including stories of his fellow patients from rehab. The main protagonist is a successful writer whom we observe from the moment he meets his love and believes that he can finally win his struggle with alcohol. Yet the director expands the seemingly banal plot line of desire to escape the vicious circle of addiction by not only numerous (tragi)comic elements, but also fantastic visions, illustrating the gradual fall of a person enslaved by alcoholism. (Febiofest)
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Good Polish pigeons return and in terms of alcoholism they mean the same as in terms of addiction at that time, i.e. Requiem for a Dream... A very strong coffee, which not everyone can handle (not even remotely), to the extent that I had to get some alcohol to get over that intrusive (but not cheap!) naturalistic raw morass of the complete loss of basic human dignity. And the consequent, precisely executed fragmented “post bukowski" form, when it doesn't matter "what, when or who" and the only thing that matters is "Gdzie jest kurwa moja flaszka?" PS: That Więckiewicz was extremely drunk all the time and experienced delirium. And no one can talk me out of it. He did pretend being drunk, he really was.
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