Miłość (film)
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| Original title | Miłość |
| Country of production | Poland |
| original language | Polish |
| Publishing year | 2012 |
| length | 106 minutes |
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| Director | Sławomir Fabicki |
| script | Sławomir Fabicki, Marek Pruchniewski |
| production |
Marek Rudnicki , Leszek Rybarczyk |
| camera | Piotr Szczepanski |
| cut | Maciej Pawliński |
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Miłość (Eng. Love) is a feature film by Sławomir Fabicki from 2012 , which deals with the crisis of the young Polish couple Maria (Julia Kijowska) and Tomek (Marcin Dorociński), whose starting point is a rape of Mary by the mayor, Adam Kostrzewski (Adam Woronowicz), is. Fabicki was inspired by a sex affair that took place a few years ago in the town hall of Olsztyn (Allenstein). He also got ideas from the report “This happened to my wife” ( To się stało mojej żonie ) by Lidia Ostałowska.
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On the occasion of the approval of EU funds for a municipal project, City President Adam Kostrzewski is organizing an evening party at which he invites his heavily pregnant employee Maria Niedzielska, who is responsible for the applications, to the first dance. The president's wife, Ms. Kostrzewska, and Maria's husband also celebrate at the party. The mayor gave Maria a bouquet of red roses, which she left on the toilet. As she is freshening up there and changing clothes for the party, a sparrow smashes a window pane and then dies on the tiled floor. As the party progresses, Tomek and Maria decide to go home so she can relax. Tomek calls a taxi company, but the mayor insists that his driver take them home.
In her new home, Tomek and Maria sit at the living room table at night and Maria complains that she no longer wants to work in the town hall. She always dreamed of working with her husband. Tomek explains to her that it is against company policy if spouses are brought into the company, although his boss and his wife are an exception. Maria suggests to Tomek that she feels that her boss wants more from her. But Tomek is interested in the fact that she will continue to earn well there for a while through the EU projects. He even jokes that he understands her boss's interest in her. Tomek has no doubt about Maria's loyalty.
Tomek wants to work on the computer in the middle of the night. Since he crashes, he takes Maria's laptop and randomly reads emails that she has received from him. They are kept in a warm, friendly tone. In an email you can see a dancing teddy bear with the face of the president who wanted to cheer Maria up with it. Tomek becomes suspicious, but doesn't talk about it. He hides his snooping from her.
The next morning they discuss the day. Maria wants to take time off because she is not doing so well. She had also planned a visit to the gynecologist. After Tomek leaves, Maria receives a text message from the president: "It's a shame it isn't my child." She calls him, says that she needs to talk to him and that she will be in the city center in the afternoon. A certain time later the president rings the suit and brings her the bouquet of roses that she deliberately did not take home. She opens in her dressing gown and is completely surprised that she does not want a visit from him. Kostrzewski persuades her to only let him in for tea. He tells her that he wants to get a divorce and live with her. He reminds her of her emails, all of which he has kept. Maria explains to him: “We have nothing in common except work.” She goes up the stairs to the baby. He follows after a while, kneels in front of her, begs for her affection, at the same time threatens to expose her with old text messages as having a career. Then he pushes her onto her marriage bed and rapes her kneeling on the floor with her pants slightly undressed without undressing. He apologizes "I lost my head" and leaves the house. Lying on the bed, Maria calls a taxi that takes her to the hospital. The gynecologist does his regular examination, notices that Maria had sexual intercourse and reminds her again that Maria and her husband must abstain from this.
When Tomek comes home from work, all he realizes is that the kettle has burned out (during the rape). Maria cries, but does not speak about the deed. Tomek rummages through her mailbox again, from which she has deleted all Kostrzewski's messages.
The baby, Ilona Maria (Ilonka diminutive), is born in the hospital in the presence of Tomek. Maria has problems breastfeeding. The child cries a lot, she is overwhelmed. She cannot sleep, shaking the bed instead of rocking the child.
Tomek gets her a prescription from the doctor (Roman Gancarczyk), who casually explains to him that sex shortly before the due date was not such a good idea, and again urges him to abstain. Tomek is shocked about this.
Maria doesn't dare to leave the house because the rapist could reappear. When she does go for a walk, she sees the president's white car, leaves her stroller with Ilona in front of a house entrance and hides in the stairwell from which she watches the car. But through the window of the stairs she only sees the driver who fetches something from the bakery and drives on. Relieved, she goes back to the entrance, but the stroller is gone. She is terrified, runs through the park and then sees police officers in a shop and a woman who wanted to save the child who was left behind and holds it in her arms. Maria has to go to the police for questioning, from where she picks up Tomek.
When he asks her at home why she left Ilona alone in the stroller, she tells him about the rape. Tomek wants to take her to the police immediately so that she can report the president. But she doesn't want this media hype.
The next day, Tomek and his colleague (Wojciech Mecwaldowski) carry the marriage bed to the bulky rubbish bin and chop it up with an ax. Tomek chases after the president, observes his wife and driver, visits him and his family at home. The grown-up Down child of the family hugs him spontaneously in the house. The woman already knows everything and asks Tomek not to ruin her family by making the crime known. She gives him an A4 envelope with 100,000 zloty. Tomek leaves the house with it and gives the money to his wife.
He feels betrayed by her, suspects that the president had sex with Maria several times, doesn't understand why she let Adam into her house and why she didn't tell Tomek about the fact right away, why she was covering Adam.
Maria says she is not a hooker, he should bring the money back. Tomek packs some things and moves out. He sleeps in the office, then in another alternative accommodation. Maria pays the money into a life insurance policy for Ilona without telling anyone about it.
Tomek still can't cope with the situation. He interrogates the president's driver in a car wash and beats him. In the middle of the city he also meets the president fetching water from a spring. The president is friendly - as always, gives Tomek a bottle of water who doesn't know what to say.
When his parents visit, his mother (Dorota Kolak), who is suffering from cancer, immediately notices that he has moved out. She wants to see the child. Tomek moves back home, explains Maria that he will fulfill all of his fatherly and financial obligations, but does not expect any questions and does not want to tell anything about himself. He meets a woman in a bar with whom he has sex that same evening. Maria focuses on the child. Once she takes the bus to the terminus where she doesn't want to get off. Because the bus driver is taking a long break, she takes a taxi to the mayor's house, where she meets him and his wife. This shows Maria's desperation and helplessness. This scene takes place 30 minutes before the end of the film.
Maria and Tomek don't yell at each other. Even when they argue, they are kind of affectionate to one another. Tomek describes his dilemma with the words: "I don't know if I still love you."
Web links
- Miłość in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Miłość at filmweb.pl (Polish)