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The first thing I have to say is that it is probably the worst film I've ever seen (apart from "Resident Evil 2" maybe) and I just hope none outside Poland will ever see it. It's based upon a famous book that I've never read, but I will just to see whether all those Polish housewives that are into it are mentally sick.
It's a story of a journalist in her thirties, left by her unfaithful husband. At the very beginning you just don't know whether all the things that are happening are serious or it's just a nightmare. Then it all begins, the whole series of absurd events that would never convince anyone who has ever been to Poland, like getting divorced and then building a new house by a lakeside in few weeks (no sign of changing season), no asphalt road, no people around and the teenage daughter leaves the house (without a car) to visit her friend, and, finally, the great romantic lover who has an apartment in the centre of the capital with the view for the most beautiful bridge there, doesn't work (at least doesn't seem to) and prepares to leave for Brazil for few months just because his heart is broken, but still doesn't want to afford a couple of coffee cups because they're too expensive. The whole film is a sequence of unexplained reactions and situations that can only irritate the viewer. The ending is completely predictable from the moment that she says "He promised not to read my e-mails" or something like that.
This is a poor attempt to make a Hollywood-style romantic comedy, but all the situations that were supposed to be comical are just pathetic. God, it wasn't supposed to be a fantasy movie or a Monthy Python flick. I just cannot believe so many people went to see this film and still liked it. I guess it tells a lot about an average Polish cinema viewer who goes to the cinema twice a year and the other film is about the pope.
Guess what! They've made the sequel! But wait, they changed all the cast! Is it possible that they were so ashamed of that film that they just wanted to forget it? Probably so.
It's a story of a journalist in her thirties, left by her unfaithful husband. At the very beginning you just don't know whether all the things that are happening are serious or it's just a nightmare. Then it all begins, the whole series of absurd events that would never convince anyone who has ever been to Poland, like getting divorced and then building a new house by a lakeside in few weeks (no sign of changing season), no asphalt road, no people around and the teenage daughter leaves the house (without a car) to visit her friend, and, finally, the great romantic lover who has an apartment in the centre of the capital with the view for the most beautiful bridge there, doesn't work (at least doesn't seem to) and prepares to leave for Brazil for few months just because his heart is broken, but still doesn't want to afford a couple of coffee cups because they're too expensive. The whole film is a sequence of unexplained reactions and situations that can only irritate the viewer. The ending is completely predictable from the moment that she says "He promised not to read my e-mails" or something like that.
This is a poor attempt to make a Hollywood-style romantic comedy, but all the situations that were supposed to be comical are just pathetic. God, it wasn't supposed to be a fantasy movie or a Monthy Python flick. I just cannot believe so many people went to see this film and still liked it. I guess it tells a lot about an average Polish cinema viewer who goes to the cinema twice a year and the other film is about the pope.
Guess what! They've made the sequel! But wait, they changed all the cast! Is it possible that they were so ashamed of that film that they just wanted to forget it? Probably so.
- patrycja-2
- Jan 22, 2006