QUesta I’m me
Type: Psychological-political biography
Director: Małgorzata Szumowska and Michał Englert. With Małgorzata Hajewska-Krzysztofik, Joanna Kulig, Mateusz Więcławek, Bogumiła Bajor
Presented in competition in Venice in 2023, The film tells the odyssey of those who feel a woman despite being born in a man’s body. Since he was a child, Andrzej dreamed of dressing up and painting his red enamel nails, but then He falls in love with Izabela and he also makes two children with herwhich does not prevent him from feeling still out of place in the role of a male.
Thus begins a long and tortuous path of revealing to itselfbut also to his wife, parents and children, which the film follows hand in hand with the conquest of the freedom of Poland from communism.
Małgorzata Hajowska-Krzysztofik and Joanna Kulig in “This is me”
The respect and delicacy with which the two directors also face the different moments of This transition that clashes with a decidedly reluctant country (not to mention worse) to pay attention to this type of themes.
The film does not hide anythingneither in the relationship with relatives nor especially in the legislative obstacles that Poland opposes to those who want to change gender, and does so almost on tiptoe, without underlining too much the distortions and legislative backwardness, probably thinking about the obstacles that could have had at home a more angry and militant film.
To find out what it means to live in Poland.
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