ESSENTIAL KILLING
Poland/Norway/Ireland/Hungary
2010
83 minutes
A man captured in Afghanistan by American soldiers escapes his jailers and goes on the run in Eastern Europe. Abstract, moody allegory, as technically and visually dazzling as it is narratively opaque.
Jeremy Thomas presents a Skopia Film/Cylinder Productions/Element Pictures/Mythberg Films production, in association with Canal Plus Poland, Syrena Films; co-financed by Task Films, Akson Studio; with support from the Polish Film Institute, Bord Scannán na hÉireann/The Irish Film Board, Norwegian Film Institute, MMKA, Eurimages. (World sales, Hanway Films.)
Starring Vincent Gallo, Emmanuelle Seigner.
Directed by Jerzy Skolimowski; produced and written by Ewa Piaskowska, Mr. Skolimowski; music by Pawel Mykietyn; director of photography (Hungarian Filmlab, widescreen), Adam Sikora; production designer, Joanna Kaczynska; costume designer, Anne Hamre; film editors, Réka Lemhényi, Maciej Pavlowski.
Screened: Venice Film Festival advance screening, Palazzo del Cinema - Sala Darsena (Venice), September 5th 2010.
2010
83 minutes
A man captured in Afghanistan by American soldiers escapes his jailers and goes on the run in Eastern Europe. Abstract, moody allegory, as technically and visually dazzling as it is narratively opaque.
Jeremy Thomas presents a Skopia Film/Cylinder Productions/Element Pictures/Mythberg Films production, in association with Canal Plus Poland, Syrena Films; co-financed by Task Films, Akson Studio; with support from the Polish Film Institute, Bord Scannán na hÉireann/The Irish Film Board, Norwegian Film Institute, MMKA, Eurimages. (World sales, Hanway Films.)
Starring Vincent Gallo, Emmanuelle Seigner.
Directed by Jerzy Skolimowski; produced and written by Ewa Piaskowska, Mr. Skolimowski; music by Pawel Mykietyn; director of photography (Hungarian Filmlab, widescreen), Adam Sikora; production designer, Joanna Kaczynska; costume designer, Anne Hamre; film editors, Réka Lemhényi, Maciej Pavlowski.
Screened: Venice Film Festival advance screening, Palazzo del Cinema - Sala Darsena (Venice), September 5th 2010.
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