

Never Gonna Snow Again

Zenia is an industrious Ukrainian migrant worker in Poland who makes house calls as a masseur to the needy and aspirational residents of a middle-class gated community near Warsaw. He is privy to all of their problems, anxieties and secrets – and something of an unwitting guru figure. Zenia’s grounded spirituality, apparent healing powers and broad shoulders make him an object of lust for many of the lost souls in the community.
[Göteborg FF] There is a certain sense of strangeness throughout the film, a certain touch of fantasy that reminds us especially of Jonathan Glazer. Not many things are explained about the main character, and especially in the final section the magical elements end up absorbing the traditional narrative, but the film as a whole has a touch of fantastic cinema, of universality in its proposal, which makes it the most affordable than Małgorzata Szumowska has made to date.