Cicha ziemia

If anyone in this film was at all likeable; if it was less laboured in its making of points; if the central characters could talk to each other or were capable of recognisably human feelings; if, in short, it was possible to believe in or care about anything happening on the screen, 'Silent Land' might not seem so long. Unfortunately, none of these conditions is met. Worse, for extended periods nothing is happening on the screen - in the case of the weather, the same nothing, repeatedly. Almost all the surfaces the inept Polish holidaymakers lie on are hard; even the bed looks uncomfortable. Not an easy watch.