Baby Blues
Directed by Kasia Roslaniec
Poland, 2013
Polish filmmaker Kasia Roslaniec returns to the East End Film Festival with another cynical tale of a youth spoiled by capitalist consumerism, following her turn at the event with 2010’s similarly themed Mall Girls. It’s probably disingenuous to make the blanket assumption that all Polish teenagers are this preoccupied with spending more money than they own, though Roslaniec confines events to a select group of five young people. Mostly restricting them to the inner-walls of a bereft city apartment, the film highlights a specifically troubling example of what can happen when a teenage girl dealt with parental responsibility has her support structures displaced by corruptible influences.
Her camera travels around the apartment in pursuit of its meandering adolescents with a Dardennesian pace; furthermore, the story of young Natalia (Magdalena Berus) abandoned with her newborn baby is a moral matter also well-suited to...
Directed by Kasia Roslaniec
Poland, 2013
Polish filmmaker Kasia Roslaniec returns to the East End Film Festival with another cynical tale of a youth spoiled by capitalist consumerism, following her turn at the event with 2010’s similarly themed Mall Girls. It’s probably disingenuous to make the blanket assumption that all Polish teenagers are this preoccupied with spending more money than they own, though Roslaniec confines events to a select group of five young people. Mostly restricting them to the inner-walls of a bereft city apartment, the film highlights a specifically troubling example of what can happen when a teenage girl dealt with parental responsibility has her support structures displaced by corruptible influences.
Her camera travels around the apartment in pursuit of its meandering adolescents with a Dardennesian pace; furthermore, the story of young Natalia (Magdalena Berus) abandoned with her newborn baby is a moral matter also well-suited to...
- 7/1/2013
- by Ed Doyle
- SoundOnSight
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