Brooding, provocative and utterly hypnotic, Tomasz Wasilewski’s coming-out drama is courageous, compelling cinema. Courageous, because it’s Poland’s first LGBT movie; compelling, because its study of bigotry is matched by a stealthy portrait of urban isolation. Mateusz Banasiuk plays a champion swimmer who, unbeknownst to his girlfriend, starts an affair with another man, triggering seething self-doubt and dark aftershocks. Wasilewski’s static visual style sets the nihilistic, pensive tone, echoed in Banasiuk’s simmering performance. Both, on this evidence, are names to look out for.
Floating Skyscrapers Review
Swimming champion (Banasiuk) lives an otherwise uneventful life with his doting girlfriend and mother. But when a chance encounter with the handsome Michal (Gelner) sparks something desire that he's been repressing, his life is thrown into turmoil.
Release Date:
06 Dec 2013
Running Time:
93 minutes
Certificate:
18
Original Title:
Floating Skyscrapers
A punchy, well-acted and devastating coming-out drama.
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