Variety Critics’ Choice: Europe Now! 2006 / Jestem / Poland 2005
Established Polish helmer Dorota Kędzierzawska’s outstandingly good drama I Am unfolds a heart-wrenching tale of a resourceful tyke living rough in a small town after escaping a children’s home. Kędzierzawska goes at the material with a stylized, painterly approach, crafting a story that feels almost like a contempo fairy tale with a potentially fatal undertow.
Established Polish helmer Dorota Kędzierzawska’s outstandingly good drama I Am unfolds a heart-wrenching tale of a resourceful tyke living rough in a small town after escaping a children´s home. Name of pic’s 11-year-old protagonist is never known, although some call him Kundel, translated as “Mongrel”. Kundel hops the fence at the repressive, gray institution he’s housed at and returns to his hometown. Although little is said, there are clearly serious issues between Kundel and his often drunk mother. After a disturbing initial reunion with Mom, Kundel runs off and takes shelter on an abandoned barge. A wealthy family lives just yards away in a big house, and soon the brood’s younger daughter Kuleczka, who at 9 already has a little drinking problem, starts paying Kundel visits and a tentative first love begins to take shape. Kędzierzawska’s stylised story feels almost like a contempo fairy tale with a potentially fatal undertow.
97 min / Color, 35 mm
Director Dorota Kędzierzawska
/ Screenplay Dorota Kędzierzawska
/ Dir. of Photography Arthure Reinhart
/ Music Michael Nyman
/ Editor Arthure Reinhart, Dorota Kędzierzawska
/ Producer Arthure Reinhart
/ Production Kid Film
/ Cast Piotr Jagielski, Agnieszka Nagorzycka, Edyta Jungowska, Basia Szkałuba
/ Contact Dream Entertainment
www: www.kidfilm.pl
Dream Entertainment
8489 W. Third St. #1038, CA 90048, Los Angeles
United States of America
Phone: +1 323 655 5501
Fax: +1 323 655 5603
E-mail: [email protected]
Jolanta Galicka
Festival Consultant, Producer
Dorota Kędzierzawska
Film Director
Maciej Karpinski
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