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All for My Mother Movie Storyline. Olka (Zofia Domalik) is seventeen years old. For constant escapes from the orphanage, the court placed her in a correctional facility. One day he meets Andrzej (Adam Cywka) and Irena (Jowita Budnik) there. When he learns that they live close to her former family home, he forces them to take her on vacation. For her, this is a chance to finally find out more about her mother. He does not know yet what a huge price he will pay for it.
All for My Mother (Polish: Wszystko dla Mojej Matki) is a Polish drama film written and directed by Malgorzata Imielska. The film stars Zofia Domalik, Maria Sobocinska, Malwina Laska, Magdalena Celmer, Helena Englert, Joanna Polec, Zuzanna Pulawska, Alicja Czerniewicz, Halina Rasiakówna and Katarzyna Wajda. The film was released on September 12 in Paris Polish Film Festival.
Film Review for All for My Mother
I recall the title of the outstanding documentary by Marcel Łoziński for a reason. Małgorzata Imielska, director of “Everything for My Mother”, is associated primarily with documentary cinema. Her latest documentary, Love and Empty Words, can still be seen in cinemas and at festivals. This is an important introduction, because “Everything for My Mother” is a title in which the perfected documentary texture of the story serves a story that falls outside the veristic framework. The documentary filmmaker flirts with the plot to tell about the truth of life. Undeveloped, real. This life fucking hurts.
The film “All for My Mother” by Małgorzata Imielska took part in the Main Competition of the 44th Polish Film Festival in Gdynia; Zofia Domalik won the award for the best acting debut
A bold, hit casting idea. Zofia Domalik shines in the foreground. He plays Ola, a mentally damaged girl from a reformatory. She did not deserve such a fate. Nobody deserved it. Imielska has researched the subject perfectly. He knows what he shows; knows how to do it. Ola is scared, lonely, still young enough to miss; immature enough to hope. He runs, he has a talent for sports. He runs to the idealized mom he misses so much. He runs so as not to stand.
Can you feel this rhythm? Run, short of breath, second round, third. It is a great asset in the film with great, para-documentary photos of Tomasz Naumiuk. Run through pain, run through fear, run to the finish line.
Zofia Domalik, a graduate of the Theater Academy in Warsaw, has the anxiety of “the cat on a hot tin roof” from a Tennessee Williams play. She would like to scream, but only silence passes down her throat. She would like to speak, but she is mostly silent. And that’s why it’s always on the move, even when it’s standing. But “Everything for My Mother”, the first film story in Polish cinema, set in a girls’ reformatory, has more of this type of revelation. Imielska made a professional start for several great debutants, from whom we can expect a lot.
Maria Sobocińska is wonderful (you can also see her in a great role in “Pan T.”) – playing hard, with a sense of humor, temperament, and also Sandra – a reformatory barb in the interpretation of the hellishly talented Magdalena Celmer. And also the wonderful Malwina Laska, Helena Englert, Zuzanna Puławska, the smaller roles of Adam Cywka or Jowita Budnik … Actually, the entire cast would have to be rewritten. And also Halina Rasiakówna, a great theater actress, who plays the director of a reformatory in Imielska’s film.
Like a background, but a creation. Bumps, hesitations, dodges. Rasiakówna’s director is in this world, but also beyond it. Elegant, separate, ashamed of the whole situation – why here, where from me? It’s all a coincidence. Rasiakówna’s director pushes her hair back, walks straight, talks to us and to herself. “I don’t want to know about all this, I don’t want to hear.” The act of omission of the director universalises itself in an overwhelming punch line. We don’t want to hear about all of this. That it would not hurt, that less.
The action “Everything for my mother” takes place, as I mentioned, in a reformatory. Ola is a guide in a world that we don’t want to imagine. Yes, light does reach there, and Imielska – with all the awareness and precision of a documentary filmmaker – knows when the light needs to be turned on and when to turn it off. There are also positive characters among the caretakers of the reformatory – such teachers are played with devotion by Katarzyna Wajda, Anita Poddębniak, and Dobromir Dymecki. This light is, however, like the music of Włodek Pawlik, beautifully present in the film. It breaks down with polyphony, falls out with a cluster, feedback.
In Imielska’s debut, it was possible to tell about the hardships of maturation fortified with the undeserved toxin of evil. Undeserved, because it was inherited, in genotype, from parents. Almodóvar’s title seems to be a memento. “Everything for My Mother” directed by Imielska is a film about the children of absent mothers. Unloved children, forgotten, therefore biting children. And about the childhood violence that these kids, these girls certainly didn’t deserve. In “The Wild Reeds”, a masterpiece by André Téchiné, the teenager Maïté played by Élodie Bouchez said to her friend: “We won’t see each other again, but if it turns out that I did not give you strength, hope and power – it will mean that I was wrong. Because you gave me strength. “Imielska’s film has just such a message. It gives strength.
All for My Mother (2020)
Directed by: Malgorzata Imielska
Starring: Zofia Domalik, Maria Sobocinska, Malwina Laska, Magdalena Celmer, Helena Englert, Joanna Polec, Zuzanna Pulawska, Alicja Czerniewicz, Halina Rasiakówna, Katarzyna Wajda
Screenplay by: Malgorzata Imielska
Production Design by: Katarzyna Filimoniuk
Cinematography by: Tomasz Naumiuk
Film Editing by: Agnieszka Glinska
Costume Design by: Malgorzata Trzaskowska
Makeup Department: Pola Guzlinska
Music by: Wlodzimierz Pawlik
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Distributed by: Naima Film
Release Date: September 12, 2020
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