An prosperous Polish couple, Adam (Dobromir Dymecki) and Anna (Agnieszka Zulewska), vacation in an Italian hilltop villa, insulated by electrical gates and metallic shutters from the world outdoors. However the world encroaches nonetheless – a migrant employee, employed to repair their pool, dies after a freak accident. Oblivious of their bubble of privilege, it doesn’t happen to Adam and Anna to do greater than the naked minimal within the state of affairs. It’s solely in the course of the subsequent police investigation that they realise they may have saved him.
This chilly, assured function debut from Aga Woszczynska has one thing of the unflinching gaze of Michael Haneke at his most unforgiving. It’s a rigorous, inventively framed piece of labor that makes use of eloquently textured sound design to discover a relationship breakdown. On the identical time it’s an allegory for the European tendency to undertake a selective blindness in relation to the struggling of others.
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