ItalianoGood Boy
19 October 19:00
Sala Petrassi
Pub Acc
Festa del cinema
Synopsis
Tommy, a nineteen-year-old hooligan, lives for drugs, parties and violence. During a night on a bender, he is abducted by a mysterious person, and despite his thick skin, he is horrified when he wakes up in chains in a suburban basement: standing in front of him is the kidnapper Chris, his near-spectral wife Kathryn and their son Jonathan. Tommy must choose between escaping and redemption.
COMMENTARY
Good Boy explores the themes of control, forced redemption and the price of individual autonomy, combining claustrophobic tension and moral uncertainty in a story that leaves its mark.
DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT
In a world starved for attention, is true freedom still desirable? Would we choose self-rule in isolation or surrender liberty for the comfort of constant care? The script, brutal and a bit acerbic, like a dark fable, is connected with themes I have addressed in Suicide Room and Corpus Christi: the family and the community both protect and imprison. We filmed in Warsaw, in the legendary studio in which 15 people were voluntarily segregated for the first Polish edition of Big Brother; then in Yorkshire in England, where Emily Brönte’s melancholic winds seemed to write themselves into the film.
Director
Jan Komasa
A director and screenwriter born in Poznan in 1981, Jan Komasa studied filmmaking at the Łódźfilm school. His short film Fajnie, że jesteś was presented in competition at the Cinefondation in Cannes. In 2011 he directed his first feature film Suicide Room, selected for the Panorama section at the Berlin Film Festival. Corpus Christi, presented in Venice and Toronto, was nominated for the Oscar® for Best Foreign Language Film and won 11 Orły, the annual awards of the Polish Film Academy.