Blurring the line between documentary and fiction like few films before it, Michal Marczak‘s All These Sleepless Nights is a music-filled ode to the ever-shifting bliss and angst of youth set mostly in the wee hours of the day in Warsaw, Poland. Marczak himself, who also plays cinematographer, is wary to delineate the line between narrative and nonfiction, and part of the film’s joy is forgoing one’s grasp on this altering perspective, rather simply getting wrapped up in the immaculately-shot allure of its location.
The main through-line, if one can even qualify it as such, follows Kris, who recently broke up with his girlfriend, and Michal, a twenty something pair eager to find nightly amusement and perhaps some greater significance in their repetitive lives. As they glide through a dark Warsaw, illuminated by street lamps and the strobing lights from whatever party they stumble across ,”playing” themselves,...
The main through-line, if one can even qualify it as such, follows Kris, who recently broke up with his girlfriend, and Michal, a twenty something pair eager to find nightly amusement and perhaps some greater significance in their repetitive lives. As they glide through a dark Warsaw, illuminated by street lamps and the strobing lights from whatever party they stumble across ,”playing” themselves,...
- 2/1/2016
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
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