Polish Film

Running time: 113 mins

In this film the borders between illusion and reality aren't just blurred, they're annihilated. Four well-known Czech actors are making a film, playing themselves. A simple premise. But as events veer from the hilarious to the ludicrous to the positively bizarre, it stops being clear just how much is the scripted film, and how much is - something else.

With a freshness and vitality that hearkens back to the golden age of the Czech New Wave with its anarchic ebullience, its willingness to take risks, and its love of mixing absurdity and the mundane until there is no telling the two apart, of any film in the last several years, Polski Film is probably the most truly Czech film of them all. - Charlie Cockey