1970 · comedy · satire · absurdist
The Cruise
Directed by Marek Piwowski1h 5m1970
A stowaway sneaks aboard a ship departing on a cruise down the Vistula River. The captain takes him for a Communist Party cultural coordinator and the intruder gladly adapts to his new role, immediately setting to work at manipulating the passengers and crew into silly and vaguely humiliating games. Before long, Tym has got everyone under his thumb and created his own comedic dictatorship.
Our read: The Cruise (1970) reads as a warm, kinetic, inventive comedy · satire · absurdist entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy / satire, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- gentle
- inventive
- intimate
- funny
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