Saturday 14 September 2019

(NIE)ZNAJOMI

Recommended. I think it's even better than the Italian "Perfetti sconosciuti" ("Perfect Strangers") it's based on. I had the impression it tapped into comedy tones more often. But it may be because the humour is typically Polish so e.g. a guy considers meat and potatoes as dinner staples and is dissatisfied he has to eat some Italian pasta. Cleverly, there are more references to the Italian original: Kasia Smutniak acts in both and in this one she's a rich expat. And all the elements that made the original so smart: humour, sadness, tension are there again. The Polish version has resigned from the subversive Italian ending which is perfectly natural for this adaptation.

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