You have the opportunity to catch All These Sleepless Nights on Wednesday March 29th at the Barbican (in London), followed by a debate with the filmmaker. Art school classmates Kris and Michal, on the precipice of their own coming of age. All These Sleepless Nights is a brilliantly filmed and fantastically executed production by a director who is sure to make his mark in the next few years to come. A new era is coming, and Warsaw stands uncomfortably at its edge. The film is sure to strike the right chord with audience members of the same demographic as those on screen, but there’s plenty more to discover for those who are a little older.
The film might, at times leave its audience feeling as if they’re looking in from the outside, but in no way does this make it less enjoyable or indeed less believable.
Using several outdoor locations and shooting mostly in gentle morning twilight, Marczak manages to produce something of unequalled beauty. The film plays with themes revolving around love and youthful adventure. 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. 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). With a soundtrack imbued with classic French pop from the same decade, including the brilliant Tout ‘les Garçons et les Filles’ by the legendary singer Francoise Hardy. All These Sleepless Nights more than borrows from French New Wave, it openly references films such as Jules and Jim (François Truffaut, 1962), Band of Outsiders (Jean-Luc Godard, 1964) and other poetic, existentialist works from the ’60s. As the characters fall in love, fall out and then make up, there is a sense of charming camaraderie between them, even when they resent each other. Marczak chose to base his story on his actors’ own experiences and relationships, which in turn allowed for the beautifully nuanced dynamics between its protagonists. journey through Warsaws nightlife in All These Sleepless Nights, available now via BFI Player with Polish Film Festival Kinoteka.Pulsing with raw energy, the film garnered Michal Marczak the Best Director award for documentary at Sundance Film Festival 2016.
Krzysztof and Michal as their evening journey culminates in the morning twilight While waiting for clubs to re-open, spend your Saturday evening on a. The two soon embark on a passionate affair which leaves Michal wondering about his own relationship with them. Things however turn sour when Krzysztof is introduced to Michal’s ex girlfriend Eva (Eva Lebuef).
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As they walk around the city, as if walking through a series of tableaux, the two find themselves crashing parties, attending raves, making fresh acquaintances and new enemies. After a break-up with his long-term girlfriend, Krzysztof makes a pact with his friend Michal (Michal Huszcza) to enjoy life without limits and to let destiny take them wherever it chooses to. Stream All These Sleepless Nights on your favorite device with Vudu. The film opens with 20-something Krzysztof (Krzysztof Baginski) watching fireworks from his apartment window and wondering about life and things yet to come. With his suave friend Michal leading the way, Kris embarks upon a nightly walkabout. Produced by Pulse Films, All These Sleepless Nights focuses on two male friends as they restlessly roam the streets of Warsaw, drinking, smoking, taking drugs and falling in love.Īll These Sleepless Nights takes its audience into an unparalleled journey of self-discovery and hedonistic excesses whilst managing to make a strong, yet unbiased commentary about Polish millenials.
In a profound and compelling celebration of cinema, filmmaker Michał Marczak captures the very heart and soul of a generation awake enough to dance to their dreams.Polish director Michal Marczak delves into the wonderment of youth in this outstanding semi non-fiction work which won him the prestigious Best Director Award at Sundance Film Festival in 2016. Determined to find his true self, Kris navigates between his memories and future hopes and soon realizes that his crusade to understand life has starting to overshadow living it. However, when Kris falls for Michał’s ex-girlfriend, the indomitable and alluring Eva, the relationship between the two best friends falls apart. With only instinct and desire as their guides, big ideas intermingle with drugs and sex and one thing seamlessly gives way to another. Along with best friend Michał, handsome and wide-eyed, they roam the metropolis at night, floating from party to party, dancing until dawn in makeshift clubs and city squares. After Kris breaks up with his long-time girlfriend, anything seems possible and Warsaw is his playground. ALL THESE SLEEPLESS NIGHTS viscerally summons that feeling, chronicling life across two Warsaw summers when students Kris and Michał resolve to experience life to the limit. Many of us know the freedom of our twenties-unfettered by responsibilities or mortality, inventing ourselves in the rush of the moment.
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