The read
It runs a compact 1h 14m.
Synopsis
Edyta is forty and in the midst of a crisis. She has left her family, her husband and son and their house on the Baltic Sea behind her. She spends her nights in a Warsaw hotel room and her days driving around the unfamiliar city. When she runs out of cash, she hatches a plan: An ad in the newspaper – sex for money. Edyta never lets things get that far though, as she drugs her clients and then uses their apartments as a refuge for the night. Then she meets an artist, Patryk. A smidgen of luck and Edyta can no longer maintain her dismissive attitude. In this enthralling character study, Tomasz Wasilewski uses filmic minimalism to ensure that glances and gestures say more than words. He portrays a lonely woman in both fragility and strength, using precise image composition.
Ratings
10 audience votes
Key crew
- Tomasz WasilewskiDirector
- Tomasz WasilewskiScreenplay
- Leszek MożdżerOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Katarzyna HermanEdyta
- Tomasz TyndykPatryk
- Agata BuzekKlaudia
- Mirosław ZbrojewiczJacek
- Janusz ChabiorCar Buyer
- Wojciech KalarusEdyta's Husband (voice)
- Milena KaletaCar Buyer's Daughter
- Anna TomczyńskaCast
- Edward WasilewskiAndrzej
- Danuta WasilewskaMaria
- Paweł TomaszewskiKrzysztof
- Dominika Biernat(uncredited)