not worth it.

I was impressed with the acting, but pretty much everything else was a hit and a miss; poor scripted dialog, bad editing and the storytelling was embarrassing obvious - radiated a lack of cinema experience. Basically, a sweet attempt to make a farce, but nothing more. Its many quirks of techniques (e.g. the odd almost random present-day shots from time to time - and not because of the bad old-woman makeup - and the momentarily out of focus shots) did not work or support its purpose, thus repeatedly reminding us of itself and creating a theatre like distance which made it impossible to emotionally truly identify with any of the characters: A fatal flaw of any would-be comedy, be it black or not!

At its core I can see the story holds a hint of potential, but not enough to carry a feature film - well unless a serious makeover in the story was done, adding subplots etc.

Rome wasn't build in one day, but neither was Warszawa it seems ... so Polish cinema will hopefully learn from this empathy seeking mishmash of a dark comedy and return later with some true heartfelt cinema storytelling instead? (I intentionally leave this with a question mark)


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