Janusz Majewski’s latest film is a blast back to the swinging 50s of Poland. It follows Fabian (Maciej Stuhr) as he returns to Poland from England and forms a swing band. It turns out to be much more successful than anyone had anticipated, especially once the beautiful and talented singer Modesta (Natalia Rybicka) joins the band and falls in love with him. Soon the couple are living the high life as the king and queen of swing, but how long will they stay at the top before dreams of a more Western life start to muddy the waters?
Mitja Okorn brings something a little lighter to New Polish Cinema with Planet Single, a romantic comedy reminiscent of The Proposal (2009) and How To Lose a Guy In 10 Days (2003). The story follows...
Robert Bolesto’s script takes the famous artistic Beksiński family as inspiration and imagines what the dynamic between the members might have been. The head of the house, Zdzisław the gothic painter, video-records his family over...
Andrzej Wajda’s last feature is a biopic about Władysław Strzemiński, the famous Polish avant-garde painter. As much as it’s a celebration of the brilliant work one man made, it also sheds light on the difficulties of Strzemiński’s...
