What is not clear here is exactly how much of the film is scripted and how much is left to organics, and so the end result is something that feels like a scrapbook of moments taken from one truly pivotal year.
The bulk of the film is in Polish with English subtitles, though there is sporadic English peppered throughout. Shot documentary-style, the foreign Drama film All These Sleepless Nights, aka Wszystkie nieprzespane noce, comes from Writer/Director Michal Marczak ( At the Edge of Russia 2010, Fuck for Forest 2012) and first-time Writer Katarzyna Szczerba, and clocks in at roughly 103 minutes. There will be EDM beats bad dancing and some good dancing! wandering the streets of Warsaw while blinded naked interludes morning jogs fence-hopping spying on unsuspecting neighbors bar fights singing on the roof gorgeous sunsets fireworks and a fuzzy, pink bunny suit. He will break-up with a girl, move into a new apartment with pal Michal (Michal Huszcza: debut), and ultimately fall for Michael’s ex-girlfriend Eva (Eva Lebuef: debut). Here, the audience watch as Kryzs navigates the Polish streets, partaking of the party scene – its drugs and romance – stumbling his way through each evening to get to the next. The synopses, trailers and other links on our website, further information about contentĪnd age-appropriateness for specific films can be found onĪs well as through general internet searches.In All These Sleepless Nights, viewers experience just over 525,600 minutes in the life of twenty-something, Warsaw native Krzysztof (Krzysztof Baginski: Photon 2017). One night bleeds into another, scenes alternate with snapshots, but it all makes an impression. Triggering content in films, as sensitivities vary from person to person. After a rough breakup with his college sweetheart, Krzysztof moves into an apartment with his friend Michal, embarking on a hedonistic tour of house parties and group raves, flings and romances, foolishness and philosophical musings. Pulsing with a raw energy (CARIBOUs Can’t Do Without You, throbbing in the background) All These Sleepless Nights garnered Michal Marczak the. Many of us know the freedom of our twentiesunfettered by responsibilities or mortality, inventing ourselves in the rush of the moment. IFC Center does not generally provide advisories about subject matter or potentially Michal Marczak won a Directing Award at Sundance 2016 for this immersive profile of two twentysomethings as they roam night-time Warsaw, shot over the course of a year. His fluid, dream-like shooting and editing style is reminiscent of the French New Wave’s spirit of discovery and iconoclasm, yet all the while our protagonist’s youthful adventure transcends Warsaw - his desire for selfhood, to belong, resounds with each of us, eternally. ALL THESE SLEEPLESS NIGHTS viscerally summons that feeling, chronicling life across two Warsaw summers when students Kris and Micha resolve to experience life to the limit. Marczak paints an intimate portrait of a displaced youth challenging to realize itself in a city that is suspended between its traumatic past and a future powered by a fervent new generation. Determined to find his true self Kris navigates between his memories and future hopes soon realizing that his crusade to understand life has starting to overshadow living it. However, when Kris falls for Michal’s ex-girlfriend, the indomitable and alluring Eva, the relationship between the two best friends falls apart. We remember sentences, gestures, winks, smiles, and glances, but never the big picture. He has heard that if you tallied a lifetime’s experiences. When I think of my years growing up in Romania, they play out much like the vignettes presented in ALL THESE SLEEPLESS NIGHTS: mystically interwoven anecdotes of a life lived, moving with the free-wheeling spirituality of Lubezki’s work in a Malick film. With only instinct and desire as their guides, big ideas intermingle with drugs and sex and one thing seamlessly gives way to another. As the Warsaw-set All These Sleepless Nights begins, the protagonist, Kris (Krzysztof Baginski), relates some unattributed wisdom. Along with best friend Michal, handsome and wide-eyed, they roam the metropolis at night, floating from party to party, dancing until dawn in makeshift clubs and city squares.
The film viscerally summons this point in time, chronicling life across two Warsaw summers as students Kris and Michal resolve to push their experience of life to the limit.Īfter Kris breaks up with his long-time girlfriend, anything seems possible and Warsaw is his playground. All These Sleepless Nights hits limited release in Los Angeles on April 7, followed by New York City on April 14, and nationwide expansion through April and May. In ALL THESE SLEEPLESS NIGHTS, Marczak captures that precise moment in our twenties where a unique freedom allows us to invent and reinvent ourselves in the rush of a passing moment. Friday, April 14 - Thursday, April 27, 2017įilmmaker Michal Marczak challenges the fly-on-the-wall traditions of observational documentary cinema by carefully “casting” his subjects and then, together with his characters, creates a new immersive narrative.
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