![]() ![]() You almost expect them to burst out in a rendition of “Guademus Igitur”-“let us now in youth rejoice.” We don’t know whether they’ve been to college where they will sing those traditional verses, but though they shoot the breeze in an attempt to find meaning, they appear to have no worries or thoughts about what they will do to make a living and how they’re to prepare for the struggles that will take them through middle age and beyond. He finds another and his anger quickly diffuses. One steals his best friend’s girl but no worries. The young people studied here in a most unusual New Wave type of filming like to keep in motion. And what we like most to do is to relate to others of our own age, preferably face to face and not on those infernal smartphones. If brought up in a stable, middle-class home with no responsibilities for making a living, we can choose what we would like to do. Then again, maybe we should not use the term “ hedonistic.” As writer-director Micha? Marczak points out in a prologue, psychologists have discovered that what we remember most as we grow older is our experiences as adolescents and young adults. Watch these hedonistic Polish youths and you’ll realize that their country must have been run by Communists and Nazis only with the utmost governmental force. ALL THESE SLEEPLESS NIGHTS, POLAND, YOUTH Photo from the movie All These Sleepless NightsĪLL THESE SLEEPLESS NIGHTS (Wszystkie nieprzespane noce)Ĭast: Krzystof Bagilski, Michal Huszcza, Eva Lebuef
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