Silent Land

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Silent Land

2021

1h 53m

Drama

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A perfect couple rents a holiday home on a sunny Italian island. The reality does not live up to their expectations when they find out that the pool in the house is broken. Ignorant of the fact that the island faces water shortage, they ask for someone to fix it. The constant presence of a stranger invades the couple's idea of safety and starts a chain of events, which makes them act instinctively and irrationally, heading to the darkest place in their relationship.

Anton Bitel

Little White Lies

09/23/2022

Silent Land plays very much in the key of Austria’s Michael Haneke, chillingly exposing class entitlement and the aloofness that the rich maintain – even in an emergency – from the grubby mortality of the poor.

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Leslie Felperin

Guardian

09/20/2022

3/5

[A] methodical and incisive debut feature...

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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

AWFJ.org

10/21/2021

Resisting any need to make overt judgements, in Silent Land Woszczyńska confidently steps back and lets us make our own call about the moral questions her film prompts in her compelling, enigmatic debut.

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Giuseppe Sedia

Kino Mania

01/21/2025

4/5

The glacial chemistry between Dymecki and Żulewska works beautifully on the big screen, The two tourists are presented as a cosmopolitan couple but the Polish filmmaker willingly let some traits of ‘Polishness’ surface here and there in the script.

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Harry Solomons

Loud and Clear Reviews

01/08/2025

4/5

Directed with a remarkable sense of style for a debut feature, Silent Land subtly and noiselessly radiates a venomous anxiety all its own.

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Joshua Polanski

In Review Online

06/05/2024

Silent Land bores by reveling too much in its own insincere cleverness, even if Woszczyńska and her filmmaking team show promise as visual thinkers.

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Synopsis

A perfect couple rents a holiday home on a sunny Italian island. The reality does not live up to their expectations when they find out that the pool in the house is broken. Ignorant of the fact that the island faces water shortage, they ask for someone to fix it. The constant presence of a stranger invades the couple's idea of safety and starts a chain of events, which makes them act instinctively and irrationally, heading to the darkest place in their relationship.

Director: Agnieszka Woszczynska, Agnieszka Woszczyńska
Producer: Giovanni Pompili, Agnieszka Wasiak
Screenwriter: Agnieszka Woszczynska, Agnieszka Woszczyńska, Piotr Jaksa Litwin
Production Co: EC1 Lódz - Miasto Kultury, Kino Produzioni, Ministero della Cultura (MiC), I/O post, Canal+ Polska, Fondazione Sardegna Film Commission, Eurimages, Lava Films, Státní fond kinematografie , Polski Instytut Sztuki Filmowej
Genre: Drama
Original Language: Polish
Runtime: 1h 53m