1969 · comedy · satire · drama
Hunting Flies
Directed by Andrzej Wajda1h 44m1969
Włodek is a middle-aged man stuck in a dead-end job at the local library who lives with his harridan wife and critical in-laws in a small apartment. When Włodek draws the interest of a library patron, the beautiful young woman encourages him to strive for better things in his life and professional career. Together, the two take off for a three-day affair, but surprises could await Włodek upon his return home.
Our read: Hunting Flies (1969) reads as a neutral, kinetic, inventive comedy · satire · drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, measured comedy / satire, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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