A fiction-film told through a female documentarian's lens, as she manipulates the story of an unemployed Polish actress living in London.... (Full plot summary below)
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A fiction-film told through a female documentarian's lens, as she manipulates the story of an unemployed Polish actress living in London.
Leave your thoughts about My Friend the Polish Girl.
| The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisShot mostly in black and white and with an improvisational feel, My Friend the Polish Girl is cool and clever, feigning social realism with winking calculation. |
| VarietyGuy LodgeThe film grabs at so many thematic strands — further including toxic female friendship, urban alienation and abusive sexual manipulation — that it can’t substantially sort through them all. Still, the attempt is audacious and stimulating. |
| Los Angeles TimesKatie WalshThe film poses half-formed thoughts about femininity through the lens of nationality, immigration, work, creativity and money, but ultimately the only profound thing it manages to say is on the nature of exploitation between subject and author. A fascinating albeit frustrating sketch on the topic. |
| ScotsmanAlistair HarknessSadly the acting and writing isn't convincing enough to transcend its intentionally pretentious conceit. |
| CineuropaKaleem AftabDespite the occasional missteps, the movie is an exciting, experimental effort by filmmakers who are aware of cinematic history as well as the society in which they operate. |
