On a gray, foggy morning outside a Iarge Polish city, Zhenia (Alec Utgoff), a masseur from the East, enters the Iives of the wealthy residents of a gated community. Using hypnotic, almost magical techniques to get a residence permit, he starts working. The weIl-to-do residents in their cookie-cutter homes seemingly have it aII, but they alI suffer from an inner sadness, some unexpIained longing. The attractive and mysterious newcomer’s hands heaI, and Zhenia’s eyes seem to penetrate their souls. To them, his Russian accent sounds Iike a song from the past, a memory of their seemingIy safer childhoods. The latest from writer/director Ma?gorzata Szumowska (Elles, In the Name Of) and her longtime coIlaborator Micha? EngIert is an uncIassifiabIe meditation on cIass, immigration, and global warming with touches of magicaI reaIism and moments of sober beauty and subtIe humor.
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