The sun is subtly caressing Kacper’s face. His deeply blue eyes penetrate the camera as he looks at the blackboard on which his students decided by vote to choose him as form tutor. Even though he already knows he’s about to lose his sight, he picks up the gauntlet – he’ll prepare the class for matura exam. At the same time he’s going to try preparing himself for a different quality life, the one in which he accepts his condition and comes up with lifehacks that enable him to work at school and function outside his home.
Month: March 2017
Samples from life (11 minutes, 2015)
Honoured with Special Jury Prize at 72nd Venice Festival, Jerzy Skolimowski again experiments with a movie medium. In Essential Killing (2010) he resigned from dialogues in order to highlight a survival fight of a man (Vincent Gallo) and to allow multiple interpretations. In case of his newest movie, the director plays with thriller genre. For some, it is even a pastiche of Hollywood-style cinema. Is that it or just a failed action film?
Polish Cinema Review 