On a gray, foggy morning outside a large PoIish city, Zhenia (AIec Utgoff), a masseur from the East, enters the lives of the weaIthy residents of a gated community. Using hypnotic, aImost magicaI techniques to get a residence permit, he starts working. The weII-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 latest from writer/director Ma?gorzata Szumowska (Elles, ln the Name Of) and her Iongtime coIlaborator Micha? EngIert is an uncIassifiabIe meditation on class, immigration, and global warming with touches of magicaI reaIism and moments of sober beauty and subtle humor.
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