![]() “There is little sense that he’s trying to tell us something larger or more significant or, lord forbid, connect partying and pathology he knows exactly who these people are, and he likes them… The music is excellent throughout, the vibe cheerily debauched without trying too hard to emphasize Magic Moments, and the effect thoroughly enjoyable. All These Sleepless Nights, which won the directing award in the World Cinema Documentary section at this year’s edition of the Sundance Film Festival, has released its first trailer. Two friends, Krzysztof Bagiński and Michał Huszcza play themselves, manoeuvring through two summers’ worth of all-night partying, woozy dawns, hook ups, banter, drug-fuelled blather, philosophical speculation – and mutual sheepishness when one of them takes up with the lively ex-girlfriend of the other. Shot in sumptuous, fluid widescreen by Marczak, its soundtrack richly tooled in post-production, with the dialogue re-recorded and music added to buoyant effect, the film is unabashed in its embrace of ‘artifice’ to get to the truth. Michal Marczak takes a dreamlike plunge into the freedoms and uncertainties of self-infatuated youth in All These Sleepless Nights. Opening with a reference to the ‘reminiscence bump’ – the notion that one’s 20s loom large in ageing memories – and determined to honour (Godard-quoting) Polish youth culture before it completely Americanises itself, Marczak chose to distil his own time and place while he still belonged in the party scene himself.Ĭapturing and imparting this very particular end-of-youth vibe, he immerses us in the long summer nights of a set of post-grad 20-somethings in Warsaw. Sex, electronic music and raves until dawn in this Polish movie, a hit at the 2016 Sundance Festival. His surprising film is no standard documentary. It is, in other words, about as good as a performance can be in this genre.Original vision and cinematic flair were the winners when Polish filmmaker Michał Marczak took the directing prize for international documentary at Sundance. ![]() The musical settings throughout Sleepless vary dramatically, from roadhouse country on the highway epic "Nothing but the Wheel" through Mexican romanticism on "Oh Marianne" and to raw blues with a Tom Waits edge on "Homework." In each of these, Wolf's voice, recorded bone dry and boosted high in the mix, flawlessly nails the feel on one track, the Stax-flavored ballad "A Lot of Good Ones Gone," his performance - reflective, understated, delicately phrased, and soulful - compares favorably to some of Van Morrison's best work. Sleepless Nights Lyrics: I came through with my hoodie on / I just wanna get my boogie on / Pop me a bottle / Boy Better Knows in charge, full throttle / All these girls trynna get onto man. In fact, in his ability to slide from singing to a spoken word or two and back again, Wolf affirms his mastery of the Bob Dylan method for bringing a lyric to life. ![]() ![]() Bits of the jive caricature of his early years surface on Sleepless, especially when reunited with his old running buddies Keith Richards and Magic Dick on "Too Close Together," but most of the album documents much more skillful and sensitive approaches to interpretation. The streets and buildings, the parks and cafes they’re all a neon-lit playground for groups of 20-somethings to lose themselves in. Geils Band, Peter Wolf builds on his legacy as a solo artist of remarkable distinction. By Marnie Schleicher Michal Marczak’s camera follows Krzysztof Baginski through the city of Warsaw in the same way that Sofia Coppola’s followed Scarlett Johansson through Tokyo in Lost in Translation. ![]() With each step he takes past his years as frontman to the J. ![]()
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