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Best of Fest Encores
On a gray, foggy morning outside a large Polish city, Zhenia (Alec Utgoff, Stranger Things), a masseur from Ukraine, enters the lives of the wealthy residents of a gated community. Using hypnotic, almost magical techniques to get a residence permit, he starts working.
The well-to-do residents in their cookie-cutter homes seemingly have it all, but they all suffer from an inner sadness, some unexplained longing. The attractive and mysterious newcomer's hands heal, and Zhenia’s eyes seem to penetrate their souls. To them, his Russian accent sounds like a song from the past, a memory of their seemingly safer childhoods. The latest from writer/director Malgorzata Szumowska (Mug, MSPIFF 2019) and her longtime collaborator Michal Englert is an unclassifiable meditation on class, immigration and global warming with touches of magical realism and moments of sober beauty and subtle humor. (Alissa Simon)
Director Biography
Born in Kraków, Poland in 1973, Malgorzata Szumowska is one of the most celebrated directors in the world. Her features include Happy Man (Szczesliwy czlowiek) (2000), Stranger (Ono) (2004), the documentary Mój tata Maciek (2005), 33 Scenes from Life (33 sceny z zycia) (2008), Elles (2011), In the Name Of… (W imie…) (2013), Body (Cialo) (2015), Mug (Twarz) (2018) and The Other Lamb (2019).
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