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11 Minutes

    • Director

      Jerzy Skolimowski

    • Credits

      Producers:
      Ewa Piaskowska,
      Jerzy Skolimowski,
      Andrew Lowe,
      Ed Guiney

      Cinematographer:
      Mikolaj Lebkowski

    • Principal Cast

      Richard Dormer,
      Wojciech Mecwaldowski,
      Paulina Chapko

  • Category

    Feature

This film was released on Friday 4th December 2015 and is no longer screening.  Jerzy Skolimowski (Essential Killing, The Deep End), one of the greats of Polish cinema, presents a typically complex and darkly humorous ensemble piece in which the lives of a separate group of characters interweave and overlap over the course of the titular period. Set in Warsaw, among those we meet are a newly wed actress whose jealous husband waits outside the hotel suite in which a sleazy Hollywood director (Richard Dormer) may be attempting to seduce her, a group of nuns buying hot dogs from a vendor with a secret, a drug-dealing courier fleeing the bed of his married lover, and a group of paramedics faced with an unusual problem while attending a patient. Filled with ominous portents and foreboding sounds, Skolimowski’s impressively kinetic take on the Hollywood thriller builds to a cunning and unexpected climax in which the characters’ fates are decided/ Notes by Kevin Coyne

82 minutes, Poland, Ireland, 2015, Colour

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