WESELE
Recommended. The structure of Wyspiański's "Wesele" ("The Wedding") - the play from 1901 it's based on has been kept: the action jumps between the present and the past, numerous characters create a social commentary. The number of issues dealt with is bewildering but the messages are loud and clear. The title wedding reception is just a pretext. Provincial Poland, disco polo rhythms, at first the family and guests appear perfectly ordinary. All the more shocking it becomes when you discover their dark secrets, one by one. The 380 phone directory in the threat message stands for Ukraine, if you wondered. Smarzowski sets the record straight with Polish pogroms on Jews, maltreatment of animals, corruption, attitude to migrants, gets at the Church - again. Horrifying scenes from the pogrom are the most harrowing. But the way the movie is cut makes your vision of Poles as sharp as never before. This time director Wojtek Smarzowski runs you over with a lorry, reverses and runs you over again.
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