From their first moments onscreen, it’s evident no good is going to come to teenagers Jurek and Grzegorz . Jan P. Matuszyński’s unsparingly bleak period feature — based on the real-life police beating, in Poland circa 1983, of high school student Grzegorz Przemyk — opens with a complex single shot that ominously captures the calm before the storm.
Grzegorz and Jurek wake up in the former’s bedroom, gray light streaming through the window, a pet turtle crawling across the floor, the friends’ idle chitchat mundane to a fault. Cinematographer Kacper Fertacz’s camera eventually becomes more mobile, moving with the boys as they walk back and forth through the bustling apartment of Grzegorz’s mother, Barbara , a poet and opposition activist whose hectic bohemian lifestyle often spills into her home.
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