While director Łukasz Jaworski gets spirited performances across the board in the sixth instalment of the hit Polish franchise, it leans heavily on familiarity with the characters
‘When the pressure builds, you don’t notice it. But once that valve blows, it’s chaos. And during the holidays, people’s valves tend to blow.” It’s fortunate that plumber Lucek (Janusz Chabior), repairing a burst pipe so warring couple Szczepan (Piotr Adamczyk) and Karina (Agnieszka Dygant) can salvage their Christmas dinner, specialises in simultaneous waterworks and relationship advice. That yule season is the same fraught affair everywhere is the message served up in glossy globalised style by this hit Polish franchise, now on its sixth instalment after kicking off in 2011 inspired by Love, Actually.
Lucek, though, is hardly a good guy; he’s actually angling to fleece Józek (Hiroaki Murakami), a wide-eyed Japanese visitor to Warsaw out to reconnect with his Polish ancestry.
‘When the pressure builds, you don’t notice it. But once that valve blows, it’s chaos. And during the holidays, people’s valves tend to blow.” It’s fortunate that plumber Lucek (Janusz Chabior), repairing a burst pipe so warring couple Szczepan (Piotr Adamczyk) and Karina (Agnieszka Dygant) can salvage their Christmas dinner, specialises in simultaneous waterworks and relationship advice. That yule season is the same fraught affair everywhere is the message served up in glossy globalised style by this hit Polish franchise, now on its sixth instalment after kicking off in 2011 inspired by Love, Actually.
Lucek, though, is hardly a good guy; he’s actually angling to fleece Józek (Hiroaki Murakami), a wide-eyed Japanese visitor to Warsaw out to reconnect with his Polish ancestry.
- 11/18/2024
- by Phil Hoad
- The Guardian - Film News
Wednesday, June 7, at 7 Pm, Plaza Frontenac Cinema
Poland; in English and Polish with English subtitles; 112 minutes
In the chilling crime thriller A Grain Of Truth, a hard-nosed prosecutor investigates a murder with bizarre and mysterious trappings, and finds himself immersed in Poland’s antisemitic past, a past that keeps resurfacing despite the modern world.
Murder, mystery and myth combine in the masterful and gripping A Grain Of Truth, director Borys Lankosz’s twisty police procedural thriller, adapted from the second novel in Zygmunt Miloszewshi’s fiction trilogy of the same name. The director and author co-wrote the screenplay, which crackles with suspense and eerie terror.
When the naked body of Ela Budnick is found next to a building that was once a synagogue, along with the probable murder weapon – a knife used in Jewish ritual – alarm spreads in the tiny Polish village. The investigation is assigned to Teodor Szacki (Robert...
Poland; in English and Polish with English subtitles; 112 minutes
In the chilling crime thriller A Grain Of Truth, a hard-nosed prosecutor investigates a murder with bizarre and mysterious trappings, and finds himself immersed in Poland’s antisemitic past, a past that keeps resurfacing despite the modern world.
Murder, mystery and myth combine in the masterful and gripping A Grain Of Truth, director Borys Lankosz’s twisty police procedural thriller, adapted from the second novel in Zygmunt Miloszewshi’s fiction trilogy of the same name. The director and author co-wrote the screenplay, which crackles with suspense and eerie terror.
When the naked body of Ela Budnick is found next to a building that was once a synagogue, along with the probable murder weapon – a knife used in Jewish ritual – alarm spreads in the tiny Polish village. The investigation is assigned to Teodor Szacki (Robert...
- 6/4/2017
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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