![]() ![]() Unrated (as R: language, violence, cruelty to animals). ![]() Virtually screening via the Brattle ( and on demand. Written by Holland and Olga Tokarczuk, based on a novel by Tokarczuk. ![]() By contrast, the movie makes a dark but compelling case that the people on the other end of the barrel deserve whatever’s coming to them.ĭirected by Agnieszka Holland and Kasia Adamik. The movie suggests these people may represent a kinder alternative to our fallen world and hints that such a world may be closer than we think - with a little justifiable housecleaning.Īnimal lovers stand to flinch at the hunting scenes and other moments of violence, all of which appear to have been staged aside from documentary footage of creatures fleeing from gunshots. There are hints in the novel that she used to be married, but no. She is now retired, but she drives into town a few days a week to tutor children. She used to be a civil engineer, and then she became a schoolteacher. She is a semi-elderly woman who lives alone in a cabin in the woods. “Spoor” surrounds Janina with a small but growing support system: her friend Dobra a crusty neighbor who knows from cruelty (Wiktor Zborowski) an awkward young IT specialist for the police (Jakub Gierszal) a swaggering Czech entomologist (Miroslav Krobot). Janina is the novel’s protagonist and narrator. The script is by Holland and Olga Tokarczuk, based on the latter’s novel “Drive Your Plough Over the Bones of the Dead” (2009), and it is generous with affection toward its main character, who actress Mandat renders with heart, fury, mischief, and the sensuality that comes from living to the fullest. ![]()
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