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Review of “Innego końca nie będzie” with AGATA KULESZA, BARTŁOMIEJ TOPA and MAGDALENA TURCZENIEWICZ. | 12.09.2024
Innego końca nie będzie dir. by Monika Majorek
Three siblings and their mother try to arrange their lives after the unexpected death of their father. Among the things packed for the move, Ola finds the family videotapes. Together with her younger brother Pipek and youngest sister Ajka, they decide to restore their childhood photos. Ola discovers that each of them is experiencing the trauma in their own way, alone and unable to deal with it. By confronting her family, she brings about a break in the tension hanging in the air.
The cast includes AGATA KULESZA, BARTŁOMIEJ TOPA, MAGDALENA TURCZENIEWICZ.
Photos: MATEUSZ SKALSKI
Łukasza Maciejewski’s review:
“Look out in Gdynia in the “Perspectives” section for Monika Majorek’s film Innego końca nie będzie.
Dolan, Dolan, Dolan – good references.
The director even by the very title refers to the beautiful film of the golden Xavier, It’s only the end of the world from 2016, but it’s a creative translation.
The motif of returning home, to the family home, which ailed, disturbed and tormented, but in which also lived, or perhaps still lives, love, has accompanied cinema since time immemorial (cinema is life).
Originality of style, form and content, therefore, is not the strength of this debut, what matters is something else. The truth of this confession.
Because the film is a confession. The director and screenwriter to the audience, and the confidences of the actors.
This film, a thing not at all common in our country, stands for acting, and it’s a pity, a pity really, that the actors performing in it, the whole excellent quartet, can’t take part in the main competition.
Maja Pankiewicz finally got the role in the film that I expected from her since our student days, since her exams and diplomas. Idiosyncrasy and hypersensitivity. Ola doesn’t want to go back, but she does. To her mother, to her brother, to her sister. Because to her dad, she doesn’t, her dad is gone (in the video excerpts, this role was beautifully played by Bartlomiej Topa).
To a home that aches with the departure of his father, the longing for his childhood, for everything that happened afterwards and did not turn out to be a medal success. Not really.
Returns. Conversations. Planet Solaris in Redlinski’s trough, in Konopielka.
It is familiar and metaphysical. The cinematographer, Mateusz Skalski, tones down the story brilliantly with color, the composer, Jan Ignacy Królikowski, subtly adds to the phonosphere, but above all, the film is cleverly completed by the director and actors. Majorek feels the actors, believes in the actors, and puts a premium on acting. There won’t be many films of this type in Gdynia this year.
I have already written about Pankiewicz.
And then there’s Sebastian Dela (also excellent this season in Gabriela Muskała’s Clowns) – we’re growing a new star, a star of a new hand. A boy strong with his tenderness. In Innego końca nie będzie he is a castaway, a hercules on the edge, in need of the candy of conversation, an unfinished conversation with his dad, with his sisters, with his mom above all.
Well, just mom. Agata Kulesza. Agata, how lucky we are to have her. You could build this role with exclamation marks, a charge, script-wise it could be read that way.
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