Mug

Mug

2018 · 91 min · PL · 6.0 (63 votes)
Dir. Małgorzata Szumowska · Starring Mateusz Kościukiewicz, Agnieszka Podsiadlik, Małgorzata Gorol, Anna Tomaszewska, Dariusz Chojnacki, Robert Talarczyk
DramaComedy

After fun-loving metalhead Jacek is disfigured in an accident at work, he becomes the first person in Poland to receive a face transplant. This leads to his status as a media spectacle and martyr, all while battling ensuing identity issues as a consequence.

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This film is a darkly funny, unsettling exploration of self. It feels like a bizarre, existential fever dream, grappling with what makes us, us, under the harsh glare of public attention.

darkly comicunsettlingmelancholicabsurdiststeadyarthousesocial commentarycharacter studyidentitytransformationmedia scrutinyexistentialism
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new identityidentity crisisface transplant
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