All These Sleepless Nights
Description
Beginning with a definition for the psychological term “reminiscence bump”—the tendency to attach greater meaning to college-age memories—the film introduces us to Krzysztof and Michal, two Warsaw art-school students drifting through their twenties. Krzysztof has just broken up with his long-term girlfriend; Michal suggests they live it up while they can, hitting all-night underground dance parties and diving headfirst into hedonism. Soon, a woman—Michal’s ex—comes between them, splintering the friendship but not stopping either from exploring who they are, and who they might want to become. Michal Marczak’s award-winning, free-form, year-in-the-life portrait is a snapshot not just of today’s Polish twentysomethings but an experiential tour of those years between adolescence and full-blown adulthood. Doing double-duty as cinematographer, the director weaves his camera in and out of late-night drunken revelries, early-morning raves and all-day philosophical hang-out sessions, with a few sexual encounters thrown in for good measure. This is youth, uncut, unfiltered and undeniably cinematic. —David Fear
A CalArts graduate, Polish director-cinematographer Michal Marczak has made an art of blending narrative storytelling and you-are-there vérité filmmaking. His first two films, At the Edge of Russia (2010) and Fuck for Forest (2012), earned him a reputation on the festival circuit as one to watch; his latest, All These Sleepless Nights, earned him the Best Directing Award at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival.
Trailer
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Language Polish
Year 2016
Runtime 100
Country Poland/UK
Director Michał Marczak
Producer Marta Golba, Michał Marczak, Julia Nottingham, Lucas Ochoa, Thomas Benski
Writer Michał Marczak
Editor Dorota Wardęszkiewicz
Cinematographer Michał Marczak, Maciej Twardowski
Cast Krzysztof Bagiński, Michał Huszcza, Eva Lebuef