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COMMUNION + I MADE YOU I KILL YOU (F/F) (2017) 

COMMUNION + I MADE YOU I KILL YOU (F/F)

(2017)

Runtime

1 hour 40 minutes

Guidance Rating

TBA

Release Date (South Africa)

2017-01-06

documentary

Synopsis

This affecting and episodic debut by Zamecka tells the story of Marek Kaczanowski and his two adolescent children. It focuses on Ola, an extraordinary 14-year-old who parents her autistic brother, Nikodem. Mostly set in the family’s welfare apartment, Zamecka’s use of fixed lenses enables her to achieve a remarkable intimacy; she shuns a didactic narrative, allowing the film’s storyline to unfold through spoken dialogue and acute observation. Masterful editing adds to the unhurried pace and fiction-like unravelling of character. Communion is less a portrait of family dysfunction than an essay in familial tenderness and endurance. Ola’s commitment to seeing Nikodem through his first holy communion is matched by her determination to reunite the family with their estranged mother, Magda. This haunting multimedia film uses a mix of video, animation, photographs, children’s drawings, music and voice-overs to provide an account of the director’s traumatic childhood which was ruled over by his bullying, domineering father, himself a victim of child abuse. In a life marred by alcoholism, domestic violence and frequent funerals, the moving image offered Bădeliță the only escape

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COMMUNION + I MADE YOU I KILL YOU (F/F)