Family screening: "Paco and the Magic Book"
Kino Muranow hosts Five Flavours' family screening on Saturday, 9th November. Admission free for the viewers up to 16 yo.
The film is a story of 10-year old Paco who finds herself in a hospital, which looks like the Mad Hatter's dreams came true. Its colorful rooms are inhabited by the extravagant patients, and an equally unusual staff. One of the nurses has vampiric tendencies, the other – a collection of tattoos. The patients include a gangster, a depressed former teenage idol, an adorable transvestite and a gloomy old man, Onuki.
Tetsuya Nakashima plays with the genre of family cinema, but his version of the tale is surprising and far from sentimental. The outcast heroes are not the fluffy weirdoes with the hearts of gold, they are an irritating pack of frustrated, egocentric losers. The sugary story is lined with tragedy, and the startling visual effects do not hide the drama, but rather shed a strong light on it. The real fairy tales - if they are to have any therapeutic value - need to show life in its full complexity and tragicomic quality.
The film is screened in original language with Polish and English subtitles.
Tickets: 17 pln, viewers up to 16 yo - admission free.
