The Wedding (2021 film)
{{Infobox film
| name = The Wedding
| image =
| caption =
| native_name = {{Film name|Wesele}}
| director = Wojciech Smarzowski
| writer = Wojciech Smarzowski
| starring = Robert Więckiewicz
Agata Kulesza
Andrzej Chyra
Michalina Łabacz
Arkadiusz Jakubik
Mateusz Więcławek
Agata Turkot
| released = {{Film date|2021|10|8|Poland|df=yes}}
| runtime = 135 min
| country = Poland
| language = Polish
| gross = $ 2,315,496{{Cite web|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt12869276/?ref_=bo_se_r_1|title=Wesele (2021)|website=Box Office Mojo}}
}}
The Wedding ({{langx|pl|Wesele}}), also known as The Wedding Day and The Wedding Day 2, is a 2021 Polish drama film written and directed by Wojciech Smarzowski.{{Cite web|url=https://spidersweb.pl/rozrywka/2021/08/02/wesele-2-smarzowski-premiera-opis|title=Smarzowski wraca z nowym "Weselem". Tylko nie pomylcie filmu!|date=2 August 2021|website=rozrywka.blog}}{{Cite web|date=2021-10-15|title=Award-winning Polish director takes on WWII pogrom of Jews in latest film|url=https://notesfrompoland.com/2021/10/15/award-winning-polish-director-takes-on-wwii-pogrom-of-jews-in-latest-film/|access-date=2022-02-16|website=Notes From Poland|language=en-US}}{{Cite web|last=Polska|first=Vogue|date=2021-10-15|title=Demontaż atrakcji: "Wesele"|url=https://www.vogue.pl/a/recenzja-wesela-wojciecha-smarzowskiego|access-date=2022-02-16|website=Vogue Polska|language=pl}} The film tells complicated relationship between Polish and Jewish neighbours in Jedwabne. It stars Robert Więckiewicz, Agata Kulesza, Andrzej Chyra, Michalina Łabacz, Arkadiusz Jakubik, Mateusz Więcławek and Agata Turkot.
The Wedding premiered at the 2021 Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival winning Official Selection - Competition Award.{{Cite web|url=https://cineuropa.org/en/newsdetail/414030/|title=Review: The Wedding Day|date=November 25, 2021|website=Cineuropa}}{{Cite web|url=https://poff.ee/en/film/the-wedding-day/|title=The Wedding Day|website=poff.ee}} At the 24th Polish Film Awards, film received ten nominations, including for Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor (Więckiewicz) and Best Supporting Actress (Kulesza), and won for Best Cinematography (Piotr Sobociński Jr.).{{Cite web|url=http://pnf.pl/nominacje-do-orlow2022/|title=Orły | Nominacje 24. ORŁÓW- Nagród Polskiej Akademii Filmowej|website=pnf.pl}}
Cast
{{Cast list|
- Robert Więckiewicz as Rysiek Wilk
- Agata Kulesza as Ela Wilk
- Michalina Łabacz as Kasia Wilk
- Przemysław Przestrzelski as Janek Sczuczyński
- Agata Turkot as Lea
- Arkadiusz Jakubik as Wodzirej / Wardoń
- Andrzej Chyra as Bogdan / Głowacki
- Maria Sobocińska as Inka
- Henryk Gołębiewski as Banaś / Furman
- Ryszard Ronczewski as Antoni Wilk
- Mateusz Więcławek as the young Antoni Wilk
- Robert Wabich as Zajdel
- Sebastian Stegmann as Hermann Schmidt
}}
Production
The Wedding is a follow-up to Smarzowski's 2004 film by the same name.{{Cite web|date=2021-10-08|title=Kulesza z Więckiewiczem o "Weselu" i Smarzowskim: Wyleją się pomyje. A Wojtek kocha Polskę|url=https://kultura.onet.pl/film/wiadomosci/wesele-premiera-filmu-kulesza-i-wieckiewicz-wyleja-sie-pomyje/w2c6d1p|access-date=2022-02-16|website=Onet Kultura|language=pl}} Filming took place in Poland and Latvia between July and December 2020.{{Cite web|title=Wojciech Smarzowski's comedy The Wedding Day wraps up filming in Latvia|url=https://cineuropa.org/en/newsdetail/391682/|access-date=2022-02-16|website=Cineuropa|language=en}}{{Cite web|last=Grynienko|first=Katarzyna|title=BOX OFFICE: Wedding by Wojciech Smarzowski Tops Polish Box Office - FilmNewEurope.com|url=https://www.filmneweurope.com/news/poland-news/item/122462-box-office-wedding-by-wojciech-smarzowski-tops-polish-box-office|access-date=2022-02-16|website=Film New Europe|language=en-gb}}
Release
The Wedding was released on 8 October 2021. It performed well on its opening weekend, selling 139,536 tickets and per Film New Europe had the "best opening for a local production in 2021."
Reception
In a praising critique of the film published by Kino Mania, Giuseppe Sedia noted that Smarzowski "invited to banquet on the big screen the same old sampler of vulgarians, bribable clerics and small town grandstanders. Subtleties aside, the Pieter Bruegel of Polish cinema offers once more a caricatural but clear-cut depiction of provincial Poland, dissolute, immobile and greedy as usual".{{Cite web|author= Sedia, Giuseppe|date=12 February 2022|title=The Wedding (2021)|url= https://kino-mania.net/archives/638|work=Kino Mania|accessdate=14 October 2022}}
Screen Anarchy reviewed the film, writing "For the recurring didacticism and programmatic disruption of nationalistic self-image, The Wedding Day is an uncomfortable history revision delivered in a masterful and provocative high-wire act of genre, commercial and arthouse filmmaking of intense social relevance."{{Cite web|date=2021-12-09|title=Tallinn 2021 Review: The WEDDING DAY, Masterful, Provocative High-Wire Act of Genre and Arthouse|url=https://screenanarchy.com/2021/12/tallinn-2021-review-the-wedding-day-masterful-provocative-high-wire-act-of-genre-and-arthouse.html|accessdate=16 February 2022|website=ScreenAnarchy}}
References
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External links
- {{IMDb title|12869276}}
- [https://filmpolski.pl/fp/index.php/1257923 The Wedding] at Film Polski (link in Polish)
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Category:Polish black comedy films
Category:2021 black comedy films