Comment je suis tombée amoureuse d'un gangster

For someone who has watched Casino 7 times and Goodfellas 8 times I can say that this movie blew me away. If being on mushrooms is like this I certainly going to try that one day. Salut to everyone who made this movie possible.

In my opinion this is a very good movie. Great music. Great production. Very long but also very interesting story. I hope more polish movies will be on such good level of production quality and story-telling as this movie is. It was a pleasure to watch this movie. Wlosak and Fabianski played their roles very natural and convicingly. I don't know the true story. I don't care. The movie is awasome!

Definitely a movie to watch. The directing is refreshing combined with great actors and story makes it unique.

Either way it seems long at first, the story of not a typical gangster takes you completely in throughout his life of girlfriends, smuggling, and actions.

Definitely recommended for those who appreciate non-american movies!

Others have commented on the plot, acting and other aspects of moviemaking, so I'll discuss the backdrop. Much of the movie spans the 1970s through the 1990s in Poland and most of that time, the country was under a Communist government, but you'd hardly know it.

It is true that Poland practiced a slightly softer version of Communism than say, East Germany or the Soviet Union. It is also true that the image of the well functioning Communist state was built on lies, there was plenty of corruption, crime networks existed and there were the illicit rich. Having said that, the state was still all powerful in Communist countries and anyone of any means had to bribe and cajole members of the party and security apparatus to maintain their status. Yet this is hardly shown at all in the movie.

That aside, it's still a good and entertaining, if a times bizarre, flick.

If they wanted to flesh out the story so much, they should have just made it a mini series. The film has serious timing issues and gets tiring after an hour. Acting was good but the screenplay didn't do the actors any favours. The characters often felt one note and not like actual human beings, that exist outside of their relation to Nikos. I usually don't mind breaking the fourth wall for exposition but they really overused it. When it comes to relatioships beetwen characters, they should stick to "show don't tell" in the future...