A young
working class girl starts a very intimate friendship with a rich girl.
This is the
archetypical art house movie. Taking just cues from his source novel polish filmmaker
Pawel Pawlikoski concentrates on the relationship between his two young leads.
The class difference, while implicit in many scenes, is not the real fulcrum of
the movie which, instead, focuses on those intense, summer long, relationships
typical of a younger age.
Mainly
improvised during filming the movie achieves a strange dreaming quality, akin
to “Picnic at Hanging Rock”, the setting is beautifully shot, even the more
plain scenes are enlightened by foreign elements and an uncanny light.
The plot is
virtually nonexistent, a thread about the brother of the poor girl being a born
again Christian goes nowhere. As in many artsy movies the director is more
interested in setting the mood than in having actual stuff happening on screen.
The two
young lead, including a then unknown 22 years old Emily Blunt, are the real
standout, considering that they improvised most of the movie they deserve a lot
of credit.
In the end
this is an interesting and relaxing movie, maybe too relaxing for its own good,
I don’t recommend seeing it while tired, there is a good risk you gonna fall
asleep.
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