It's one of the saddest movies I've ever seen. If in "Deep end" there was a ray of light in the strange relationship between Susan and Mike, here, loneliness howls from all the hidden "corners" of the film. Leon's unrequited love for Anna seems to be the result of a dramatic trigger that happened years before when Leon catches the moment Anna is raped by a stranger that he witnesses completely frozen and helpless. Moreover, he ends up being unjustly sentenced to prison under the suspicion that he is the rapist. What the film suggests at the end is that Anna knew all along that he wasn't the rapist and she tells him when she pays him a last visit in prison to return a ring that he had placed in the drawer of a wardrobe in Anna's room. What happens in the film much more than simple voyeurism, is the desperation with which Leon experiences his own love, which he can only share with his grandmother, whom he had recently buried. It's a hard movie to sit through because at no point does it offer anyone a shred of hope. Anna doesn't seem any happier either, she sleeps alone in a metal hospital bed, lives in poor conditions and obviously has no boyfriend. A film in which a man and a woman take their tragic destinies in parallel like a poem dedicated to a pack of Prozac.
Review of Cztery noce z Anna
