My Friend the Polish Girl

Name: My Friend the Polish Girl
Genre: Drama
Released: November 29, 2019
Duration: 87 min
Cast: Aneta Piotrowska, Calum Carr, Daniel Barry, Darren Rose, Emma Friedman-Cohen

2019

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Subliminal Films (II) | Release Date: November 29, 2019 | Not Rated

Starring: Aneta Piotrowska, Calum Carr, Daniel Barry, Darren Rose, Emma Friedman-Cohen, Gareth Lawrence, Luangkhot Manysouk, Luisa Guerreiro, Max Davis, Sophie Rose Miller, Tom Bonington

Summary: My Friend The Polish Girl borrows from cinema verite and video bloggers to recreate a naturalistic, documentary style within the framework of a traditional narrative feature. The film follows Katie, a wealthy American filmmaker living in London, as she chooses the subject of her next project: Alicja, an erratic and unemployed Polish actressMy Friend The Polish Girl borrows from cinema verite and video bloggers to recreate a naturalistic, documentary style within the framework of a traditional narrative feature. The film follows Katie, a wealthy American filmmaker living in London, as she chooses the subject of her next project: Alicja, an erratic and unemployed Polish actress new to the city. As they grow closer, Katie's colonizing and disruptive presence in Alicja's life begins to blur the lines between documentarian and subject, and between manipulated fiction and reality. Set in a post Brexit sociopolitical landscape, Katie's treatment of Alicja mirrors the United Kingdom's approach towards the European immigrant community: welcomed, used, then discarded. My Friend The Polish Girl is a raw, sexual, and visually brash film exploring the intersection of power, control, and intimacy, set against the backdrop of contemporary British culture. [Subliminal FIlms]… Expand

Director: Ewa Banaszkiewicz and Mateusz Dymek

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 87 min

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Jeannette Catsoulis

Dec 5, 2019

Shot mostly in black and white and with an improvisational feel, My Friend the Polish Girl is cool and clever, feigning social realism with winking calculation. Read full review

Guy Lodge

Nov 29, 2019

The film grabs at so many thematic strands — further including toxic female friendship, urban alienation and abusive sexual manipulation — that it can’t substantially sort through them all. Still, the attempt is audacious and stimulating. Read full review

Katie Walsh

Dec 2, 2019

The film poses half-formed thoughts about femininity through the lens of nationality, immigration, work, creativity and money, but ultimately the only profound thing it manages to say is on the nature of exploitation between subject and author. A fascinating albeit frustrating sketch on the topic. Read full review

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