While you’re still in the vice-like grip of its multilevel narrative it may not feel like it, but a film like Agnieszka Holland’s bruisingly powerful new refugee drama ultimately comes from a place of optimism. It is optimistic to expect and to nurture a reaction of potentially motivating outrage, when you portray the brutality of which human individuals, at the behest of human institutions, are capable. It is optimistic to believe that, faced with extraordinary cruelty, a viewer’s ordinary decency will be compelled to rise and rebel. “Green Border” is a heart-in-mouth thriller set on the Polish-Belarusian border that wraps its social critique in the razor wire of punchy, intelligent cinematic craft in order to elicit precisely such emotions. If we can feel the horror, perhaps there is hope.
It is 2021 and a Syrian family are fleeing Isis and their ravaged hometown of Harasta on an airplane bound for Belarus.
It is 2021 and a Syrian family are fleeing Isis and their ravaged hometown of Harasta on an airplane bound for Belarus.
- 9/5/2023
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
Delivery by Christmas (Jeszcze przed swietami) is a comedy movie starring Monika Frajczyk and directed by Aleksandra Kulakowska and Maciej Prykowski.
A comedy that fuses social realism with the Christmas spirit, in this story of a corporate mix-up.
Premise
Marysia’s career as a courier is on line as a spiteful coworker sabotages her deliveries. Thankfully, a helpful customer comes to the rescue.
Movie Review
Very paced and different to the customary Christmas numbers we are used to see. A genuinely Polish, European movie that distances itself from Hollywood, as you will see in the characterizations, which are more realistic and natural. But, that does not stand in the way for the “magic” that is so characteristic of Christmas rom-coms.
With some deadpan schticks pulled off by good performers it lightens the mood of the film. A comedy that pokes fun at everything quotidian.
This is not a formulaic Christmas movie,...
A comedy that fuses social realism with the Christmas spirit, in this story of a corporate mix-up.
Premise
Marysia’s career as a courier is on line as a spiteful coworker sabotages her deliveries. Thankfully, a helpful customer comes to the rescue.
Movie Review
Very paced and different to the customary Christmas numbers we are used to see. A genuinely Polish, European movie that distances itself from Hollywood, as you will see in the characterizations, which are more realistic and natural. But, that does not stand in the way for the “magic” that is so characteristic of Christmas rom-coms.
With some deadpan schticks pulled off by good performers it lightens the mood of the film. A comedy that pokes fun at everything quotidian.
This is not a formulaic Christmas movie,...
- 12/6/2022
- by Veronica Loop
- Martin Cid Magazine - Movies
After roiling a Polish village as an impostor priest in Oscar-nominated “Corpus Christi,” star Bartosz Bielenia tries to rattle the entire nation in “Prime Time.” His character here is another malcontent, this one armed and ready to take over a TV studio on New Year’s Eve with a special message for the world. But he’s a bit too literally a rebel without a cause: We never discover just what this protagonist’s protesting gripe is. That lack makes director Jakub Piatek and co-writer Lukasz Czapski’s first feature a familiar hostage drama whose anticipated narrative raison d’etre is strangely Mia. The slick, watchable but ultimately somewhat pointless results, which premiered at Sundance six months ago, launch worldwide on Netflix June 30.
It’s New Year’s Eve 1999 at a Krakow network affiliate, and despite the Y2K fears glimpsed on other stations’ broadcasts, just another night’s labor for the staff here.
It’s New Year’s Eve 1999 at a Krakow network affiliate, and despite the Y2K fears glimpsed on other stations’ broadcasts, just another night’s labor for the staff here.
- 6/29/2021
- by Dennis Harvey
- Variety Film + TV
In 1999, Mira Kryle (Magdalena Popławska) runs to the studio; she's almost late. The presenter is supposed to conduct the TV contest on the occasion of New Year's Eve. The prize in the competition is quite something for the 1999/2000 year; it's the Matiz car, one of Poland's most popular vehicles at the time. The frivolous atmosphere swiftly transforms into something more ominous, and Mira wishes that she was late when Sebastian (Bartosz Bielenia) enters the place with a gun and takes Mira and a security guard, Grzegorz (Andrzej Kłak) hostage. Prime Time, directed by Jakub Piątek, is his directorial feature debut that premiered at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. The film touches upon the issues of incompetence of those in charge in tough situations, mass media, and displays Poland's picture at the beginning of the new millennium.
Sebastian has only one demand; he wants to go live and talk to the audience across Poland.
Sebastian has only one demand; he wants to go live and talk to the audience across Poland.
- 2/4/2021
- by Zofia Wijaszka
- DailyDead
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