"Zero" Polish film

The 13th Annual European Union Film festival in Chicago screens the Polishfilm Zero 2009, directed by Pawel Borowski.

This marvelously inventive thriller scrambles its way through a densely packed twenty-four hours in an unnamed European metropolis, where the lives of more than forty characters fatefully intersect. A CEO, a hospital worker, a peddler, a gigolo, a duplicitous wife, a short-tempered taxi driver, and scores of others are introduced in absorbing mini-dramas; then, like relay runners, each hands the narrative on to the next, until one sprawling tale encompassing adultery, espionage, murder, child pornography, extortion, and robbery takes shape.

In Polish with English subtitles. 35mm print courtesy of Opus Film. (BS)

110 min.
With Robert Wieckiewicz, Bogdan Koca

Additional Show
March 25 at 8:00pm

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