Movielogr
Bird Talk (2019)
Directed by Xawery Żuławski
Overview
Based on a script by Andrzej Żuławski, this is a fascinating on-screen dialogue between father and son that combines nostalgia and fury, the sublime with humor, and old-school style with a sharp, penetrating look at Polish reality. The eponymous bird talk is the language used by those excluded from the aggressive majority: a history teacher tormented by children, a teacher of Polish studies fired from his job, a girl who cleans a banker’s villa, a florist with a club foot and a student with a fascination for cinema. Pushed to the margins by the extreme right, they defend themselves with irony, songs and quotes from the classics.
Length 138 minutes
Actors
Sebastian Fabijański | Eryk Kulm | Jaśmina Polak | Katarzyna Chojnacka | Sebastian Pawlak | Andrzej Chyra | Żaneta Palica | Borys Szyc | Marta Żmuda-Trzebiatowska | Daniel Olbrychski | Michal Grudzinski | Monika Niemczyk | Michał Wanio | Bartosz Obuchowicz | Wiktor Zborowski | Edyta Januszewska | Grzegorz Palkowski | Kacper Olszewski | Natalia Sierzputowska | Emil Lipski | Paweł Mandziewski | Konrad Skolimowski | Konrad Pasik | Kaja Wróblewska | Karolina Czyż | Agata Sacewicz | Pawel Kugel | Mikołaj Matczak | Olaf Marchwicki | Anna Krzyżanowska | Marcin Mroczek | Rafał Mroczek | Wojciech Biedroń | Anna Maria Kosik | Michał Kościuk | Alicja Jachiewicz | Barbara Garstka | Danuta Borsuk | Katarzyna Radochońska | Katarzyna Trzcińska | Tomira Kowalik | Gustaw Korzyński | Marianna Solarz | Bartłomiej Kotschedoff | Krzysztof Bernaś