Dir. Aga Woszczyńska
2022 | 113 mins
Polish with English subtitles
Dobromir Dymecki, Agnieszka Żulewska, Jean Marc Barr

SHOWING TIMES:

• Fri 14 Oct: 8.15pm
• Sat 15 Oct: 8pm
• Tue 18 Oct: 5pm
• Thu 20 Oct: 8pm

After arriving at a holiday villa on an Italian island, bourgeois couple Adam (Dobromir Dymecki) and Anna (Agnieszka Żulewska) discover that the swimming pool is empty. The migrant worker sent to fix it suffers a deadly poolside accident, setting off a chain of disturbing events that shake the moral foundations of this seemingly-perfect couple. Aesthetically sparse, with an enigmatic plot, Agnieszka Woszczyńska’s debut feature is an unflinching character study that unfurls the power of denial.

Silent Land debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival, before picking up the FIPRESCI award for the International Competition at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival.

★★★★ – “creeps up on the viewer with devastating force”

GLOBE & MAIL

★★★★ – “tense and highly intelligent filmmaking”

FILMUFORIA

★★★★ – “echoes of Antonioni and Haneke”

TOTAL FILM

★★★★ –  “Unflinching…plays very much in the key of Haneke” 

LITTLE WHITE LIES

F-RATED:

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