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In a Bedroom

Forum of Independents - Competition 2012 / W sypialni / Poland 2012

Forty-year-old Edyta is in crisis. She sleeps at hotels, and when her money runs out she uses the internet to find men who are looking for sex. With a minimalist plot line, the movie reveals the characters more through faces and gestures than words, and through the brittle, elusive atmosphere, perhaps the film’s main protagonist.

In a Bedroom In a Bedroom

Synopsis

Forty-year-old Edyta is in crisis. She sleeps at hotels, and when her money runs out she uses the internet to find men who are looking for sex. Edyta spends nights in the homes of the nameless men but, instead of the promised sex, she takes advantage of their involuntary hospitality. She reaches a turning point, however, when she meets a young artist named Patryk.… In his minimalist movie, debuting director Tomasz Wasilewski makes smart use of the tension resulting from the lack of information his story provides viewers about the protagonists. Faces and gestures reveal the characters more than words, with the brittle, unnameable atmosphere that pervades the entire film playing a fundamental role. In her entirely natural manner, Katarzyna Herman lends veracity to the character of Edyta, and her excellent performance earned her the domestic award for Best Actress at the Koszalin Debut Films Festival.

About the film

76 min / Color, DIGIBETA
International premiere

Director Tomasz Wasilewski / Screenplay Tomasz Wasilewski / Dir. of Photography Marcin Martinez Swystun / Music Leszek Możdżer / Editor Aleksandra Gowin / Producer Michał Toczyski, Grażyna Strzałkowska / Production IQ ART Film Sp. z o.o. / Cast Katarzyna Herman, Tomek Tyndyk, Agata Buzek, Mirosław Zbrojewicz, Janusz Chabior / Contact IQ ART Film Sp. z o.o.

About the director

Tomasz Wasilewski

Tomasz Wasilewski (b. 1980) graduated in film and television production from Poland’s PWSFTViT in Łódź and went on to study direction at the Film and Television Academy in Warsaw. He served as assistant director on Małgorzata Szumowska’s 33 Scenes from Life (33 sceny z życia). He shot the short film Nawiść (2001) and the short documentary Show jednego człowieka (2008). In a Bedroom is his feature debut.

Contacts

IQ ART Film Sp. z o.o.
Ul. Chmielna 5 lokal 10, 00-021, Warsaw
Poland
Phone: +48 228 262 418
E-mail: [email protected]

Guests

Maria Letowska

Tomasz Wasilewski
Film Director

Katarzyna Herman
Actress

Grażyna Strzałkowska
Producer

Agnieszka Odorowicz
Film Institution Rep.

Marcin 'Martinez' Swystun
Film Crew

Dorota Kacprzyk
Film Crew

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