While director Łukasz Jaworski gets spirited performances across the board in the sixth instalment of the hit Polish franchise, it leans heavily on familiarity with the characters
‘When the pressure builds, you don’t notice it. But once that valve blows, it’s chaos. And during the holidays, people’s valves tend to blow.” It’s fortunate that plumber Lucek (Janusz Chabior), repairing a burst pipe so warring couple Szczepan (Piotr Adamczyk) and Karina (Agnieszka Dygant) can salvage their Christmas dinner, specialises in simultaneous waterworks and relationship advice. That yule season is the same fraught affair everywhere is the message served up in glossy globalised style by this hit Polish franchise, now on its sixth instalment after kicking off in 2011 inspired by Love, Actually.
Lucek, though, is hardly a good guy; he’s actually angling to fleece Józek (Hiroaki Murakami), a wide-eyed Japanese visitor to Warsaw out to reconnect with his Polish ancestry.
‘When the pressure builds, you don’t notice it. But once that valve blows, it’s chaos. And during the holidays, people’s valves tend to blow.” It’s fortunate that plumber Lucek (Janusz Chabior), repairing a burst pipe so warring couple Szczepan (Piotr Adamczyk) and Karina (Agnieszka Dygant) can salvage their Christmas dinner, specialises in simultaneous waterworks and relationship advice. That yule season is the same fraught affair everywhere is the message served up in glossy globalised style by this hit Polish franchise, now on its sixth instalment after kicking off in 2011 inspired by Love, Actually.
Lucek, though, is hardly a good guy; he’s actually angling to fleece Józek (Hiroaki Murakami), a wide-eyed Japanese visitor to Warsaw out to reconnect with his Polish ancestry.
- 11/18/2024
- by Phil Hoad
- The Guardian - Film News
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