Floating Skyscrapers (2013)

Original title

Płynące wieżowce

Directed by

Tomasz Wasilewski

Genre

drama film, LGBTQ-related film

Country

Poland

Runtime

1h 33m

Rating

5.9 of 10 from 79 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Kuba is a competitive swimmer who starts a secret relationship with another man. His mother disapproves and his girlfriend tries to keep their relationship intact.

melancholictenseintimateslow-burnemotionalrestrainedsomberpoignant

What happens

Floating Skyscrapers (Polish: Płynące wieżowce) is a 2013 Polish drama film written and directed by Tomasz Wasilewski, and starring Mateusz Banasiuk, Marta Nieradkiewicz, Bartosz Gelner and Katarzyna Herman. It follows the story of Kuba, an aspiring professional swimmer who falls in love with another man to the disapproval of his mother and to the surprise of his girlfriend, who tries to hold on to him and their relationship. Premiering at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival in New York City, the film is the first Polish production that primarily deals with the topic of same-sex relationships, and is often paired together with In the Name Of by Małgorzata Szumowska—which covers the same themes in a different manner—as films that attempt to challenge existing local social and cultural norms on homosexuality. Set in Warsaw, the film is noted for using the urban landscape and its largely clean, straight aesthetic as a means of conveying the existence of these strict pre-existing social conventions, which the film's storyline attempts to deviate from. Reactions to the film by both critics and the general public were mixed. While some have praised the bravery of the film for covering a topic generally considered by Polish society to be taboo, as well as for its cinematography and soundtrack, others have criticized the film's flat storyline and character development, as well as its predictable, conventional, tragic end. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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