![]() Possibly because of its unique docu-drama structure. It also feels and pulls you towards the early Wong-Kar Wai films, especially bringing back memories of Days Of Being Wild. The film calibrates the feverish embrace of a Terrence Malick film which is drenched in a Gasper Noe nightmare. ![]() Where you are at the parties but your mind is stuck with some girl that you yourself had let go. The film is essentially a testement to what it is like being young. Which is why these breakups, patch-ups, and fuckups feel more than just things as they are essentially a look back from a liberated and self-realized state in time. Time floats seamlessly in Marczak’s film. It's a look that feels cinematic like a feature film. The color is drained, creating a crisp yet somber winter backdrop for the story. There's no lower third that states the subjects' names, ages, or locations. Figuring life out and falling in and out of love is merely a part of it. All These Sleepless Nights has none of the markers of a typical documentary. The twenties are mostly about a lot of things. ![]() Playing himself, Krzysztof Baginski is Marczak’s trigger point into the lucid dreamlike life of the young. In the film, two polish twenty-something are seen fleeting through Warsaw trying to fit into the vibrant youthful malice where loneliness feels like a curse. Especially the part where they turn onto one another as we grow up just a little bit. On the onset itself, we understand and remember how most of the memories of our lives are from the part of our adolescence. All These Sleepless Nights (Wszystkie nieprzespane noce) The Orchard Reviewed by: Harvey Karten, Shockya Grade: B- Director: Michal Marczak Written by: Michal Marczak, Cast: Krzystof Bagilski, Michal Huszcza, Eva Lebuef Screened at: Critics’ DVD, NYC, 4/7/17 Opens: Apin NY April 7 in L.A.
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