Marcel Lozinski, one of Poland’s most innovative documentary filmmakers, touches upon the social inertia of the mid-1970s in this biting movie satire. A summer camp for young married couples provides a stage for a spectacle of ambition, cunning and open resentment as the participants compete for the title ‘Exemplary Couple’. Wooed by the prospect of winning a washing machine, people slowly turn against each other. How to Live? provides an insight into the undoing of social ties and is all the more stirring for its innocuous holiday setting.