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Piggies (Swinki) Please, Please Me! (Fais-moi plaisir!)
POLAND
In an economically depressed Polish border town, vulnerable ado-
FRANCE
Slapstick offsets a sweet strain of angst in this French comedy about
Director: Robert Glinski lescents struggle to find themselves as they face a bleak future. Take Director: Emmanuel Mouret love and fidelity amid a band of sex-obsessed Parisians. Prolific writer/
Producers: Eike Goreczka, 16-year-old Tomek (Filip Garbacz), who dreams of becoming an astrono- Producer: Frédéric Niedermayer
director/actor Emmanuel Mouret (Shall We Kiss? SDFF 31) combines
Witold Iwaszkiewicz, Thomas Jeschner,
mer. But for this big-eyed, baby-faced waif – whose parents, teachers,
Screenwriter: Emmanuel Mouret
the sensibilities of Woody Allen with those of Harold Lloyd.
Mario Schneider
and parish priest offer little support – the stars are surely unreachable.
Cinematographer: Laurent Desmet
Screenwriters: Joanna Didik,
Robert Glinski, Witold Iwaszkiewicz
Editor: Martial Salomon
A dithering ringer for the young Catherine Deneuve, Frederique
MS: A to Z
Polish writer/director Robert Glinski (whose Hi, Tereska won the
Cinematographer: Petro Aleksowski
Cast:
Bel plays Ariane, a nurse who decides that her nutty beloved, Jean-
MS: A to Z
Emmanuel Mouret,
il
Krzystzof Kieslowski Award for Best Feature Film at SDFF 25) has his
Judith Godreche, Deborah Francois,
Jacques (Mouret), is fantasizing about another woman. She insists he
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Editor: Krzysztof Szpetmanski
finger on the pulse of post-Soviet Eastern Europe, and in the expectant, Frederique Bel, Dany Brillant have an affair with her in order to cure him of this supposed preoc-
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Cast: Filip Garbacz, Bogdan Koca,
wary faces of these young “piggies” – to use the local slang for teenag-
2009 / color / 92 min.
cupation and save their relationship. What neither of them knows
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Dorota Wierzbicka, Piotr Jagielski,
h
T
ers who sell themselves for cash or goods like clothes, cosmetics, and is that the woman in question happens to be the daughter of the
T
Rolf Hoppe, Marek Kalita
electronics – he finds the cynicism and despair of a lost generation. For French president. In his earnest desire to please his girlfriend, Jean-
2009 / color / 90 min.
kids like Tomek and his sometime girlfriend Marta (Anna Kulej), who
EMManuEL MourET
Jacques forges ahead, intent on consummating the new relationship.
live in a graffiti-stained public housing project and hang out at a shabby Emmanuel Mouret, who has directed, But things run less smoothly than the French reputation for amour
discotheque, “opportunity” means crossing Poland’s porous western
written, and starred in all his films,
would suggest.
cites Eric Rohmer and Sacha Gultry as
roBErT GLinSKi
border into Germany to engage in prostitution. Intelligent and good-
his early influences. In 2004, his feature
A native of Warsaw, Robert Glinski hearted, Tomek himself tries to resist, but, as he says, “everything’s
Venus and Fleur was selected for the
What follows is a series of sight-gag obstacles that include a long,
is an award-winning director in both
getting blurred.” Soon he has joined his unhappy best friend Ciemny
Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes.
hilarious encounter between a sheer curtain and our hero’s zipper, an
film and theatre, a screenwriter, and a
(Daniel Furmaniak) on the streets, where corruption and tragedy loom. access code almost as long as the square root of pi, and a run-in with
professor at The Polish National Film,
Selected Filmography an automated elevator that brings to mind Hal from 2001. There are
Television, and Theater School in Lodz.
Glinski and his crew spent months looking for teenagers to cast in
Shall We Kiss? (2007)
echoes of Mr. Bean in Mouret’s squeamish politeness and unwitting
Change of Address (2006)
Selected Filmography
the film’s most crucial roles, and the nonprofessional actors he chose faux pas and a hint of the delirious comedic swoons of Peter Sellers
Venus and Fleur (2004)
Benek (2007) bring to Piggies an appropriate rawness. Joanna Didik, who wrote the in the deadpan delivery, but it’s all branded with the endearingly
The Call of the Toad (2005)
screenplay with Glinski, lived for 20 years in the town where the story is dimwitted sincerity that has become his distinct trademark.
Hi, Tereska (2001)
set. What they strove for, he explains, was “authentic environment, real
Love Me and Do Whatever You Want
(1998)
places, real people, sometimes real events … an illusion of documental
Sponsored by:
All That Really Matters (1992)
observation.” They succeeded.
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