Powiedz mi, co czujesz / Tell Me What You Feel

PL 2026, 102 mins, Original ver­si­on with English sub­tit­les. Dir: Łukasz Ronduda / Screenplay: Łukasz Ronduda, Agata K. Koschmieder / Cinematography: Weronika Bilska / Editing: Agata Cierniak. Cast: Jan Sałasiński, Izabella Dudziak, Anita Poddębniak, Adam Szyszkowski, Aleksandra Justa, Andrzej Konopka and others.

Patryk comes from the coun­try­si­de, whe­re his desti­tu­te par­ents scra­pe by sel­ling scrap metal on a run-down farm. But he doesn’t want to beco­me a far­mer – he rents a cheap room in Warsaw, wears bright­ly colou­red second-hand clo­thes and tri­es to make a name for hims­elf as an artist.
One day, he stumbles upon a per­for­mance art exhi­bi­ti­on whe­re Maria buys visi­tors’ tears and dis­plays them. She comes from a wealt­hy fami­ly in the city – yet during a role-play, it beco­mes clear that Maria, just like the tearless Patryk, is deep­ly bur­den­ed by trau­ma. In some respects, they are kind­red spi­rits. Their rela­ti­onship deve­lo­ps into a rol­ler­co­as­ter ride that beco­mes a tri­al by fire on social, ero­tic, emo­tio­nal and artis­tic levels. Once again, Łukasz Ronduda pulls off a mas­ter­stro­ke by seam­less­ly embed­ding artis­tic ques­ti­ons and real works of art into a film nar­ra­ti­ve, ensu­ring that neither the dis­cour­se beco­mes too intellec­tu­al nor the art is tri­via­li­sed. Having alre­a­dy por­tray­ed an artist cou­ple in Heart of Love (2017), he now intro­du­ces the aspect of clas­sism into a rela­ti­onship sto­ry. In doing so, he once again draws on real-life models – Patryk’s model is the artist Patryk Różycki, whilst the visu­al artist Karolina Balcer ser­ved as the inspi­ra­ti­on for the cha­rac­ter of Maria. [Rainer Mende]

12 September / 3.00 pm / fsk Kino / Guest: Andrzej Konopka
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