StunnaKrypto Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.

Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

Nessieldwi Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

StyleSk8r At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

Edward Barett I enjoyed this movie from the very beginning to its end. Direction is superb, screenplay, character's performance, everything is brilliantly played and the output is understandingly remarkable. On the other hand, I disagree with some of the opinions posted on this board; this movie does not intend to reflect the lack of improvement since the fall of communism in Poland, or the advances of capitalism. It is not focused on politics, or at least I never got that impression. It's merely a burlesque artwork on human feelings, disillusion and settled values of this new global society; the impact they have on the lives of people in a small town in central Europe. Villages are the same elsewhere, in France or in USA, in Brazil or in Sweden, and villagers are always subjected to mockery because of their outdated and weird customs. For me, this is the best movie i've ever seen from Poland, and a great surprise. Will always recommend it!

SepikRiver Very true to life.Very Slavic - lots of drinking - very believable but boring and the film goes on way too long!!!!The plot is plausible but uninteresting.The characters seem real but very disconnected. The characters are well acted but very two dimensional.Photography goes from the film camera to the cheap video camera used by the videographer shooting the wedding.The sound, music and other technical aspects are weak.True vignette of eastern Europe.Avoid this film it is endlessly repetitive.

Kuba_D From the first scenes of the film where the father of the bride gets furious because the video-operator doesn't have on tape the moment where he brings the daughter to the groom, you already know that Smarzowski's movie will be ruled by the law of absurd.The story evolves like in a drunken vision. The local wealthy man Wojnar (Marian Dziedziel) is getting his daughter married and he buys them a luxurious Audi TT as a gift. What Wojnar doesn't know is that the car is stolen, but what he does know is that excluding the money, he must give two thousand acres of land to the gangster who brought the car for him. The land however is grandfather's and he is not willing to sell it. On one hand the viewer sees the wedding on which Tymon Tymanski sings out 'The White Bear' and hosts some totally embarrassing games. Everybody are getting drunk, argue and strangely enough tend to undress. On the other hand the criminal plot evolves. The gangster (Pawel Wilczak) gets angry with Wojnar for the delay. He shoots off his finger and after the arrangements are done, he leaves him with false papers.'Wesele' is similar to a volcano - ready to blow up. The grandfather dies, but his corpse doesn't seem to have an effect on anybody. The bride watches if the her ex-boyfriend is beaten good. Wojnar drives home for money, but is stopped by the police. The filled toilet explodes and pours out what becomes a metaphor of the disgusting on-screen world. Everybody here is covered in... 'excrements'. Everything smells and bring disgust.Wojciech Smarzowski has made a logical, with an aim to be dirty and a great realization. The camera who watches over what man would like to hide most.From "Wesele" which wants to portrait the modern Polish mentality, just as Wyspianski's play wanted to (there is even a quote from the play - "one should be in boots at the wedding"), comes out a whole catalog of our bad sides. The characters are sick about the money. They envy, lie and cheat. And it is not Wojnar who is the most disgusting here - it is his company surrounding him. Starting with the administrator, the musician and the bride. Because everybody can be saint and indigested when bad, mean and nasty is always 'he', 'someone', 'the other one'.

Witold Brostow If one tries to follow the logic in the film, one finds just too many contradictions and discontinuities. The bride noticed only after the wedding vows were exchanged that her new husband wanted the Audi car and not her ? Only at the wedding reception in front of a large pot in the kitchen she begins talking to her mother about life and love; living under one roof they never had an opportunity to talk about these issues before ? A real estate sale document notarized during the weekend has not been recorded, this was supposed to be done Monday; it is still the weekend, yet the notary wants money for annulment and the hero is willing to pay a large sum. The hero is quite successful financially, yet he does not keep any money in the bank ? Who and for what reason moved the body of the grandfather of the bride from the bathroom to inside of a cello box ? How could this have happened with the band playing in the front of that cello box ? A crook sells to the hero a stolen car and instead of cash wants a deed to a piece of real estate near the residence of the hero ? One could continue this list of nonsenses much longer ...