con Monika Kwiatkowska, Robert Mania, Ewa Pajak, Martyna Rozwadowska
Polonia, 1h45, v.o. polacco sott. italiano
VENEZIA 83 ORIZZONTI
Kasia si guadagna da vivere svaligiando appartamenti insieme al suo compagno. Durante uno dei loro furti, scopre il corpo di un uomo che si è tolto la vita. Poco dopo, il suo compagno viene arrestato. Rimasta sola, Kasia decide di tornare nell’appartamento del suicida e comincia a fingere che tra loro ci fosse una relazione. Basta la sinossi per cogliere la forza e l’originalità di un prodotto dalla tenuta narrativa impressionante, un’opera sulla solitudine e sui diversi significati della menzogna, valorizzato dalle prove di un cast in formissima.
Kasia earns her living by breaking into apartments with her boyfriend. During one of their break-ins, she discovers the body of a man who has committed suicide. Shortly after, her boyfriend is arrested. Left alone, Kasia decides to go back to the dead man’s apartment and starts pretending that they were together. At first, her deception is driven by a desire to get the man’s money – she tries to take over his insurance policy and take possession of his belongings and income. Over time, however, she becomes increasingly curious about who he was, and as she learns more about his life, she begins to form a sort of relationship with him – getting to know his loved ones and his story. As her investigation into the dead man’s identity unfolds, Kasia falls in love. Perhaps not so much with the man she never met, but with her own story, her own lie. Her journey becomes an opportunity for this estranged, fractured family to come together again – if only for a moment. Cudze rzeczy is a story about how far apart we, as human beings, can drift from one another – so far that sometimes only a lie, and pretending to be someone we are not, can make others see us as human again.
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