BIALY POTOK
Watchable. All dark, as if in a shadow, and greenish. Starts with a ludicrous and obscene conversation. Next the action finally starts and involves a lot of angry people arguing, yelling and fighting. The dream scene is ridiculous and obscene again. It could have been a comedy of errors. Instead it's a pathetic tragicomedy.
Some info form the Q&Q with director Michał Grzybowski and actress Agnieszka Duleba-Kasza:
Normally the cost of a movie in Poland is about 3-5 million zlotys. This one, from a micro budget plan, cost 700 thousand zlotys. 1.5% profit from the cinema tickets returns to PISF. Michał Grzybowski wrote the script with a colleague within 2.5 months to obtain the funds. The director didn't make any money from it: "Głównie za złe rzeczy się płaci" ("Mainly bad things are paid for"), doing something good doesn't pay, as he remarks.
The story took place in his neighbourhood. Biały Potok is the name of the osiedle (an estate comprising of a number of houses).
The actress who was to play the pregnant wife resigned so was replaced in the last minute. She left together with her cinematographer husband.
The director says he wanted the film to take the form of a farce but a raw, realistic one so he treated it like a drama. The picture is dark "to break the comedy", to make it naturalistic.
In the director and garrulous actress's opinion the opening scene expresses jealousy. The actress sounded as if she really had such dumb conversations at parties.
The kid with the gun had stood in the doorway aiming at them in real life so the director decided the boy had to act in it.
Marcin Dorociński is said to be modest. He'd come to the set on bike.
The Mazda car cost 1400 zlotys + 400 zl to get it running.
My own impression from the Q%A is that with good movies the makers don't need to explain the film.
The cinema in Ursynowskie Centrum Kultury "Alternatywy" had comfy seats.
MOSQUITO STATE
Recommended. It's like nothing I've seen before. While Aronofsky's "Pi" reverberates in this film - here the maths genius already works in the finance - the rest is unique. Masterful cinematography, studious shots, sound effects, great music and, next - in the order of appearance - an unusual tale. However unsettling the events are, the film keeps you calm, it's so captivating with style.
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