A Netflix original Polish mystery thriller, The Mire, aired its first season, set against the backdrop of the 1980s, and the second season followed in 1997. The series revolves around two investigative reporters, Witold and Piotr, who dig deeper into some mysterious murder cases taking place in the forest of Gronty while also dealing with their personal issues. The series is all set to release its third season, The Mire Millennium, but before that, let’s revisit the previous two seasons of the saga to get an introduction to the characters and to know more about the central storyline of the show.
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Season 1 Recap: Who Killed Lidia And Grochowiak?
Season 1 of The Mire opened with a woman stumbling onto two dead bodies in Gronty Forest in the night. The two dead bodies belonged to a prostitute named Lidia and the Chairman of the Socialist Youth Board, Grochowiak, who were brutally slain in the forest.
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Season 1 Recap: Who Killed Lidia And Grochowiak?
Season 1 of The Mire opened with a woman stumbling onto two dead bodies in Gronty Forest in the night. The two dead bodies belonged to a prostitute named Lidia and the Chairman of the Socialist Youth Board, Grochowiak, who were brutally slain in the forest.
- 2/28/2024
- by Poulami Nanda
- Film Fugitives
Bogna Kowalczyk’s lively and moving film follows 82-year-old Lulla La Polaca who embraces the future and its uncertainties with irresistible joie de vivre
Still sorely underexplored on screen, the autumnal years of queer life are vibrantly explored in Bogna Kowalczyk’s lively and moving portrait of 82-year-old drag artist Andrzej Szwan, who goes by the name Lulla La Polaca on stage. Living in Poland, a country riddled with anti-lgbtq+ legislation, Andrzej brings a pop of colour to the concrete, Soviet-build apartment block where he lives alone.
As Lulla, Andrzej represents a bridge of knowledge between older and younger generations of the queer community. Andrzej talks of saunas and public bathhouses, long before the age of apps, where gay men could cruise in secret. At the same time, the film also frankly and empathically grapples with the challenges of ageing. When it comes to partying and drinking, Andrzej can’t...
Still sorely underexplored on screen, the autumnal years of queer life are vibrantly explored in Bogna Kowalczyk’s lively and moving portrait of 82-year-old drag artist Andrzej Szwan, who goes by the name Lulla La Polaca on stage. Living in Poland, a country riddled with anti-lgbtq+ legislation, Andrzej brings a pop of colour to the concrete, Soviet-build apartment block where he lives alone.
As Lulla, Andrzej represents a bridge of knowledge between older and younger generations of the queer community. Andrzej talks of saunas and public bathhouses, long before the age of apps, where gay men could cruise in secret. At the same time, the film also frankly and empathically grapples with the challenges of ageing. When it comes to partying and drinking, Andrzej can’t...
- 2/26/2024
- by Phuong Le
- The Guardian - Film News
1670 introduced Jan Pawel as a man who grew up with only one dream: to become the most famous and respected man ever to be born in Poland. He was the richest landowner in his village, Adamczycha, until his arch-nemesis came along. Andrzej sought shelter in the village with his three daughters after his wife’s death. Within just a couple of years of his arrival, Andrzej had bought half of Adamczycha and Jan and Zofia’s shared hatred. If I’m being honest, Andrzej and Jan Pawel weren’t much different and basically wanted the same things. Jan Pawel wanted to become the richest person in Poland and marry his daughter, Aniela, to a rich magnate so he would never have to worry about both money and respect.
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Why Was Jan Always In Disagreement With Andrezj?
If you’d streamed 1670 on Netflix, you’d know that Andrzej...
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Why Was Jan Always In Disagreement With Andrezj?
If you’d streamed 1670 on Netflix, you’d know that Andrzej...
- 12/14/2023
- by Rishabh Shandilya
- Film Fugitives
Set in Poland in the year 1670, Netflix’s latest offering of the same name chronicles the account of Jan Pawel, a Polish nobleman. For as long as he could remember, Jan Pawel (Bartlomiej Topa) had only one dream: to go down in history as the most famous man in Poland. Jan had three children: Stanislaw (Michal Balicki), Jakub (Michal Sikorski), and Aniela (Martyna Byczkowska). As for his wife, Zofia (Katarzyna Herman), she wasn’t someone you would call to rejuvenate your boring party. She was more like the lost soul of a dead person, endlessly tormenting a man, as Jan Pawel stated on multiple occasions. They had very little in common except their shared hatred for their neighbor, Andrzej, who owned a bigger half of their village.
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Why Did Jan Pawel Hate Andrzej?
Andrzej was just another landowner, like Jan Pawel, who wanted to raise the taxes given...
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Why Did Jan Pawel Hate Andrzej?
Andrzej was just another landowner, like Jan Pawel, who wanted to raise the taxes given...
- 12/13/2023
- by Rishabh Shandilya
- Film Fugitives
Pieces of a Woman: Szumowska & Englert Compose Compassionate Portrait of Trans Woman
“Testosterone is power,” confirms one physician advising Andrzej, the protagonist of Malgorzata Szumowska and Michal Englert’s latest, Woman Of…, which parallels a trans woman’s eternally inhibited sex reassignment with the shifting political landscape of Poland over four decades. It’s a statement reflecting the staunchly heteronormative and conservative sentiments of a country struggling to divorce itself from the grip of nationalism in its post-Communist era, where manliness remains close to godliness. An anguish crystallized by countless consultations with a medical community in a country whose policies actively impede women and the LGBTQ+ community is one of many shifting facets of Andrzej’s journey to becoming Aniela.…...
“Testosterone is power,” confirms one physician advising Andrzej, the protagonist of Malgorzata Szumowska and Michal Englert’s latest, Woman Of…, which parallels a trans woman’s eternally inhibited sex reassignment with the shifting political landscape of Poland over four decades. It’s a statement reflecting the staunchly heteronormative and conservative sentiments of a country struggling to divorce itself from the grip of nationalism in its post-Communist era, where manliness remains close to godliness. An anguish crystallized by countless consultations with a medical community in a country whose policies actively impede women and the LGBTQ+ community is one of many shifting facets of Andrzej’s journey to becoming Aniela.…...
- 9/8/2023
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
With her enigmatically titled Woman Of… (Kobieta z..), Malgorzata Szumowska returns from the magical satire of Never Gonna Snow Again to trenchant social realism, recounting a journey lasting half a lifetime, of sacrifice, sorrow and resilience.
Written and directed in collaboration with regular cinematographer and creative partner Michal Englert, this is a rare close-up of an older trans woman making tough choices in a majority Catholic country that remains legislatively and socially hostile. The film’s compassionate gaze and stirring performances make it an illuminating window into gender recognition in an unaccommodating environment.
Like many dramas focused on a highly specific community and developed out of extensive interviews, Woman Of… doesn’t entirely escape the feel of a representational project that ticks all the required boxes in a not entirely seamless narrative. However, that doesn’t make it any less sincere or moving, not only in the principal character’s...
Written and directed in collaboration with regular cinematographer and creative partner Michal Englert, this is a rare close-up of an older trans woman making tough choices in a majority Catholic country that remains legislatively and socially hostile. The film’s compassionate gaze and stirring performances make it an illuminating window into gender recognition in an unaccommodating environment.
Like many dramas focused on a highly specific community and developed out of extensive interviews, Woman Of… doesn’t entirely escape the feel of a representational project that ticks all the required boxes in a not entirely seamless narrative. However, that doesn’t make it any less sincere or moving, not only in the principal character’s...
- 9/8/2023
- by David Rooney
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The first real clue comes when Andrzej is called up for national service and, standing in front of the army medics in his underwear, refuses to take his socks off. His toenails were painted blue, he tells his mates cheerfully a couple of years later, as if it were a joke. But it isn’t a joke; it is the most serious thing in his life. He is waving a flag at the time; they are in the bloom of the Solidarity movement and the promise of a new world, when it feels like anything goes.
But it isn’t quite like that, either. Poland will soon find its conservative heart. An occasional magazine article about newly recognized gender dysphoria may pop up. The internet is full of sex sites offering new combinations, even if that doesn’t quite chime with what Andrzej, who has a beloved wife and children,...
But it isn’t quite like that, either. Poland will soon find its conservative heart. An occasional magazine article about newly recognized gender dysphoria may pop up. The internet is full of sex sites offering new combinations, even if that doesn’t quite chime with what Andrzej, who has a beloved wife and children,...
- 9/8/2023
- by Stephanie Bunbury
- Deadline Film + TV
There will come a time, perhaps not even too far from now, when films like “Woman Of…” may feel, if not old hat, at least familiar, part of a genre unto itself: not a coming-of-age story but a coming-of-self one, tracing the particular life stages of identifying oneself as transgender, accepting oneself as such, and finally living that truth out loud. Spanning decades in its closeup portrait of a Polish trans woman traveling that trajectory in a social climate hostile to her very existence, Małgorzata Szumowska and Michał Englert’s heart-on-sleeve film isn’t aiming to be revolutionary — there’s an old-fashioned melodramatic heft to its episodic construction, setting its heroine’s tale in a pointedly mainstream context. But it still represents a bold gesture of cinematic allyship, drawing attention as it does to Poland’s dire record on LGBT rights.
Those merits will serve this Venice competition premiere well on the festival circuit,...
Those merits will serve this Venice competition premiere well on the festival circuit,...
- 9/8/2023
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
The Netflix recommendation algorithm is a boundless and ineffable mystery. On any given day, it will reach randomly into the Netflix catalog and haul out a film many had kind of forgotten existed or perhaps never knew about, and get scads of subscribers to watch it. One might recall the time in April of 2023 when the not-particularly-beloved 2011 prequel-cum-remake of "The Thing" topped Netflix's popularity charts. More people saw it that month than perhaps watched it in theaters.
The latest popular surprise from Netflix comes in the form of Bartosz M. Kowalski's "Hellhole," a Polish horror movie that was released on the streaming service in October of 2022, but is only now coming to prominence. Don't feel bad if you hadn't heard of "Hellhole" prior to this; few have. It's only by the caprices of Netflix that it now arrives in the public eye.
"Hellhole" is an exorcism thriller set in...
The latest popular surprise from Netflix comes in the form of Bartosz M. Kowalski's "Hellhole," a Polish horror movie that was released on the streaming service in October of 2022, but is only now coming to prominence. Don't feel bad if you hadn't heard of "Hellhole" prior to this; few have. It's only by the caprices of Netflix that it now arrives in the public eye.
"Hellhole" is an exorcism thriller set in...
- 5/2/2023
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
Sam Neill is detailing the controversial making of “Possession.”
The cult classic 1981 divorce thriller was central to Neill’s upcoming memoir “Did I Ever Tell You This?” with the actor calling it “one of the best films I was lucky to be in.”
However, Neill noted, “This is by no means a universal view. Not many people have ever seen it and, of those who have, it is true that many loathe it. I myself regard it as a masterpiece, albeit a very flawed masterpiece. I am not alone in that view.”
Neill wrote that director Andrzej Żuławski was a “handsome, charismatic, and wild filmmaker” whose practices would not be condoned in modern cinema.
“I didn’t like him much; what he saw as direction often was just downright bullying. But he had vision, he was a true cineaste. And they are rare,” Neill penned. “Żuławski asked more...
The cult classic 1981 divorce thriller was central to Neill’s upcoming memoir “Did I Ever Tell You This?” with the actor calling it “one of the best films I was lucky to be in.”
However, Neill noted, “This is by no means a universal view. Not many people have ever seen it and, of those who have, it is true that many loathe it. I myself regard it as a masterpiece, albeit a very flawed masterpiece. I am not alone in that view.”
Neill wrote that director Andrzej Żuławski was a “handsome, charismatic, and wild filmmaker” whose practices would not be condoned in modern cinema.
“I didn’t like him much; what he saw as direction often was just downright bullying. But he had vision, he was a true cineaste. And they are rare,” Neill penned. “Żuławski asked more...
- 3/22/2023
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
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