Jasmina Wójcik’s “King Matt the First” is an enthralling peek into childhood’s many pleasures. The taste of them may linger on even if the spirit has mostly receded. The film is a tussle with eventual loss, arcing from innocence to beguilement. So much blurs away with only a faint echo of the past. One clutches onto it, the grasp slipping.
Circling her two young daughters, Lea and Zoja, Wójcik’s film puts a gentle, searching gaze on the shifting, sparkling expanse of their thoughts, whims, and fancies. Lea reiterates not wanting to grow up. When people grow up, they forget to have fun, she adds, tinged with deep regret. Though the children say they don’t understand the melancholy that they see in adults, it washes over inevitably. It comes in the not-so-desired rhythms of life crashing on one, familiar sensations replaced by new ones dripping with adult awkwardness,...
Circling her two young daughters, Lea and Zoja, Wójcik’s film puts a gentle, searching gaze on the shifting, sparkling expanse of their thoughts, whims, and fancies. Lea reiterates not wanting to grow up. When people grow up, they forget to have fun, she adds, tinged with deep regret. Though the children say they don’t understand the melancholy that they see in adults, it washes over inevitably. It comes in the not-so-desired rhythms of life crashing on one, familiar sensations replaced by new ones dripping with adult awkwardness,...
- 4/30/2025
- by Debanjan Dhar
- High on Films
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