Piosenki o miłości

When, purely by chance, Robert meets the musical Alicja, the hunting instinct in him awakens: both for this unusual woman and also for the sentimental love songs that she sings so free of inhibition. The two make music together for a while without becoming an item. Alicja doesn't want her songs to be heard by others, and yet Robert sells the songs to a music label anyway, helped by his influential father. In this, his autobiographically inspired feature film debut, Tomasz Habowski skilfully manages to address several inner contradictions characteristic of his generation, be it that of small-town and big-city roots, father and son or wife and husband; and between those who refuse to sell out and those who want to turn everything into money, including the talent and, by extension, the soul of their girlfriend. At the same time, though Habowski engages critically with the pressure that the snobbishness of the art scene brings with it, he does this subliminally enough to allow his audience to revel in the maelstrom of emotions brought forth by this perfectly staged contemporary romantic tragedy and the wonderful indie songs of its leading actress.

Obenkino: original version with English subtitles.

Kammerbühne: original version with English subtitles + German simultaneous translation.