Never Gonna Snow Again, 2020. Directed by Malgorzata Szumowska and Michal Englert. Starring Alec Utgoff, Maja Ostaszewska, Agata Kulesza, Weronika Rosati, Katarzyna Figura, Lukasz Simlat, Andrzej Chyra, Krzysztof Czeczot, Astrid Nanowska, Wojciech Starostecki, Maciej Drosio and Olaf Marchwicki. SYNOPSIS: Zhenia, a Russian-speaking immigrant from the East, works as a masseur in Poland and becomes a […]
2020 BFI London Film Festival Review – Never Gonna Snow Again
Never Gonna Snow Again, 2020. Directed by Małgorzata Szumowska and Michał Englert. Starring Alec Utgoff, Maja Ostaszewska, Agata Kulesza, Weronika Rosati, Katarzyna Figura, Andrzej Chyra and Łukasz Simlat. SYNOPSIS: Zhenia, a Russian-speaking immigrant from the East works as a masseur in Poland and becomes a guru-like figure in a wealthy gated community where his clients […]
Movie Review – Cold War (2018)
Cold War, 2018. Directed by Pawel Pawlikowski. Starring Joanna Kulig, Tomasz Kot, Borys Szyc, Agata Kulesza, Cédric Kahn, Jeanne Balibar, and Adam Woronowicz. SYNOPSIS: A passionate love story between two people of different backgrounds and temperaments, who are fatefully mismatched, set against the background of the Cold War in the 1950s in Poland, Berlin, Yugoslavia […]
Movie Review – Dark Crimes (2018)
Dark Crimes, 2018. Directed by Alexandros Avranas. Starring Jim Carrey, Martin Csokas, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kati Outinen, Vlad Ivanov, Agata Kulesza, Robert Wieckiewicz, Piotr Glowacki, and Zbigniew Zamachowski. SYNOPSIS: A murder investigation of a slain businessman turns to clues found in an author’s book about an eerily similar crime. Based on the 2008 article “True Crimes […]
Movie Review – The Innocents (2016)
The Innocents, 2016. Directed by Anne Fontaine. Starring Lou de Laage, Agata Buzek, Agata Kulesza and Vincent Macaigne. SYNOPSIS: Poland after the end of World War II is occupied by the Russians and a female doctor is helping the Red Cross to care for survivors. A nun from the local convent arrives, pleading for help and […]
