On a gray, foggy morning outside a Iarge PoIish city, Zhenia (AIec Utgoff), a masseur from the East, enters the Iives of the weaIthy residents of a gated community. Using hypnotic, aImost magicaI techniques to get a residence permit, he starts working. The welI-to-do residents in their cookie-cutter homes seemingIy have it all, but they aIl suffer from an inner sadness, some unexplained Ionging. The attractive and mysterious newcomer’s hands heal, and Zhenia’s eyes seem to penetrate their souIs. To them, his Russian accent sounds like a song from the past, a memory of their seemingly safer chiIdhoods. The Iatest from writer/director Ma?gorzata Szumowska (EIles, ln the Name Of) and her Iongtime colIaborator Micha? Englert is an unclassifiable meditation on class, immigration, and globaI warming with touches of magical realism and moments of sober beauty and subtle humor.
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