Dom Dobry / Home Sweet Home

PL 2025, 107 mins, Original ver­si­on with German and English sub­tit­les, Director: Wojciech Smarzowski / Cinematography: Paweł Tybora / Screenplay: Krzysztof Komander / Music: Mikołaj Trzaska, Cast: Agata Turkot, Tomasz Schuchardt, Agata Kulesza, Maria Sobocińska, Łukasz Gawroński, Arkadiusz Jakubik, Magdalena Smalara, Julia Kijowska, Andrzej Konopka and others.

Gośka, no lon­ger a spring chi­cken, can bare­ly stand living with her shrewish mother, who can’t stop drin­king or nag­ging her daugh­ter, even at Christmas. Fortunately, the sophisti­ca­ted Grzesiek turns up, a man with both feet firm­ly on the ground. When things go pear-shaped at home once again, Gośka spon­ta­neous­ly packs her bags and moves in with him.
Suddenly, ever­y­thing seems to be taking a turn for the bet­ter – they tra­vel the world tog­e­ther; the mar­ria­ge pro­po­sal in Venice is fol­lo­wed by the wed­ding and the birth of a daugh­ter. Yet the dome­stic idyll gra­du­al­ly turns into a night­ma­re. For within their own four walls, Grzesiek beco­mes a tyrant who does not shy away from psy­cho­lo­gi­cal and phy­si­cal abu­se.
With his ninth fea­ture film, Smarzowski once again impres­si­ve­ly mana­ges to gar­ner cri­ti­cal accla­im and awards, whilst also raking in box-office takings and spar­king a social deba­te. Once again, along­side Krzysztof Komander, he pro­ves hims­elf a mas­ter at the editing desk and – thanks in part to the per­for­man­ces of Agata Turkot and Tomasz Schuchardt as Gośka and Grzesiek – mana­ges to strike a balan­ce bet­ween a wide­ly acces­si­ble dra­ma and a sophisti­ca­ted art­house film. [Rainer Mende]

13 September / 8.00 pm / fsk Kino / Guest: Wojciech Smarzowski
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