2000 · drama · mortality · faith
Life as a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease
Directed by Krzysztof Zanussi1h 37m2000
Tomasz, a doctor, and atheist, is diagnosed with cancer. His ex-wife offers him the money for treatment in Paris, but his lung cancer is past the operating stage. Facing imminent death, he questions the beliefs he has held all his life and starts experimenting with both his own life and those of others.
Our read: Life as a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease (2000) reads as a heavy, measured, grounded drama · mortality · faith entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, measured, measured drama / mortality, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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