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Kill It and Leave This Town

Zabij to i wyjedz z tego miasta

2020

Mariusz Wilczynski

Animation

6.0

72

Animation. Horror. Drama For his first feature-length animated film, Mariusz Wilczyński has turned his attention to his own biography and bares all. Rummaging irreverently and uninhibitedly through his own personal and collective memory, he populates the streets, trams and shops of the industrial city of Lodz with characters, scraps of memory and catchy tunes that take us back to his childhood world of the 1960s and 1970s. Literary characters, comic book ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		David Ehrlich IndieWire	"It's almost oppressively personal at times. Hideously seductive as it can be, the movie is so isolated inside the contours of Wilczyński’s mind that it’s hard to imagine what audience might exist for it"
		Deborah Young The Hollywood Reporter	"A relentlessly sad tone poem of dissonant notes and off-key chords, its black and white images with an occasional touch of color depict a world of monstrous inhumanity"
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"A kind of sleep-talking cinema, a cinema which splurges up scrambled messages from the unconscious, which have their own dark mysterious poetry (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Sarah Ward Screendaily	"In its most poignant, resonant moments, the film feels both devastatingly personal and affectingly revelatory (... ) When it meanders, which is perhaps more often than it should, it requires serious commitment from its audience"
		Jessica Kiang Variety	"[It] is alarmingly niche in appeal, but if you can slip into that tiny schism, it certainly rewards with one of the most nightmarishly original dystopian visions you are likely to encounter this year."
		Ola Salwa Cineuropa	"It really stands out (...) thanks to its genre, mood, tone and emotional density."

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