Film
Mug
- Director
- Malgorzata Szumowska
- Certificate
- 15
- Running Time
- 90 mins
Amiable, hairy, tattooed polish metalhead Jacek (Mateusz Kosciukiewicz) is a builder toiling on Christ the King – a gargantuan 108-foot statue funded by the Catholic faithful, which is intended to outdo Rio’s Christ and enter the Guinness Book of Records as the world’s biggest concrete Jebus. (Factual note: this is actually a thing. It was erected in the town of Swiebodzin back in 2010.) Alas, the poor fella suffers a terrible accident, sustaining horrific injuries as he tumbles into gargantuan beardy man’s hollow torso. As a consequence, he becomes the first Pole to undergo a complete face transplant. This proves reasonably successful, but his idiot family, friends and co-workers proceed to betray and abandon him. His mother won’t even look at the poor chap. Only his sister remains loyal.
Steeped in surrealism from its opening scene of the orgy of consumerism that is an ‘Underwear Stampede Christmas Sale’ in the shadow of the giant Christ, Malgorzata Szumowska’s self-styled “fairy tale for adults” is a satirical exploration of smalltown prejudice and stupidity in which the shortcomings of the Catholic Church literally loom large.
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