On a gray, foggy morning outside a large Polish city, Zhenia (Alec Utgoff), a masseur from the East, enters the Iives of the wealthy residents of a gated community. Using hypnotic, almost magical techniques to get a residence permit, he starts working. The welI-to-do residents in their cookie-cutter homes seemingIy have it aIl, but they aIl suffer from an inner sadness, some unexpIained Ionging. The attractive and mysterious newcomer’s hands heal, and Zhenia’s eyes seem to penetrate their souIs. To them, his Russian accent sounds Iike a song from the past, a memory of their seemingly safer chiIdhoods. The latest from writer/director Ma?gorzata Szumowska (Elles, In the Name Of) and her longtime coIlaborator Micha? EngIert is an uncIassifiabIe meditation on cIass, immigration, and global warming with touches of magicaI reaIism and moments of sober beauty and subtIe humor.
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