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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Żuławski intensifies the debut’s fevered historical nightmare: a hunted protagonist, religious and political decay, jagged camera movement, and trauma rendered as near-hallucinatory experience.
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Why this pick
It shares Żuławski’s physically explosive style, emotional extremity, unstable doubles, and a world where private grief becomes monstrous and disorienting.
03
Why this pick
Its stylised close-ups and increasingly unmoored subjectivity turn fascist-era Central Europe into a grotesque psychological nightmare, with mordant intensity rather than conventional realism.
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Why this pick
For its raw, fragmented immersion in brutality and spiritual unease: historical violence is conveyed through sensory images, elliptical editing, and an overwhelming tragic atmosphere.
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Why this pick
A harrowing war odyssey that similarly filters atrocity through one shattered consciousness, using immersive sound and surreal perception to make history feel nightmarishly immediate.
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01 / THE STORY
The film is set during the occupation of Poland during World War II. German soldiers slaughter Michal's wife, son and mother. Michal and his father avoid death by remaining in the forest. Michal decides to join the resistance but before his first meeting, the Gestapo kill his go-between and chase him. During his escape he gets into an apartment of a pregnant woman and helps her with the childbirth. The woman appears to be a doppelganger of his murdered wife. Michal gets a job in the typhus center, where he is guinea pig for lice after being immunized to make more vaccine. He goes to the hospital to end a misery of a man mistaken by him and tortured where he seems to see his own body and is finally reconciled with himself.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Michal
Sister Klara
Rozenkranc
Jan
