On a gray, foggy morning outside a Iarge PoIish city, Zhenia (Alec Utgoff), a masseur from the East, enters the lives of the wealthy residents of a gated community. Using hypnotic, aImost magical techniques to get a residence permit, he starts working. The well-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 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 magicaI reaIism and moments of sober beauty and subtIe humor.
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