Completed - POLISH, ENGLISH - Drama - 100 minutes
Alicja has no memory of her past, but has managed to build a new life and identity. When her family finds her, she doesn’t want her old life, until bits of memories begin to come back. Gradually, her new and old identities merge allowing for an unsettling self-discovery.
Year of production : 2018 Director(s) : Agnieszka SMOCZYŃSKA Writer(s) : Gabriela MUSCAŁA Cast : Gabriela MUSKALA, Lukasz SIMLAT Producer(s) : Agnieszka KURZYDŁO, Karla STOJÁKOVÁ (Axman), Jonas KELLAGHER (COMMONGROUND PICTURES)
Alicja has no memory and doesn’t know how she has lostit. During two years of living in this condition, she hasmanaged to build her new, independent self away fromhome. She doesn’t want to remember who she was before.So, when her family finally finds her, she’s suddenly forcedto fit into the roles of mother, daughter and a wife, andrelate to people who are now complete strangers to Alicja.Similarly, her husband has managed to patch a new lifeback together, because in a way, the former Alicja was“dead” to both him and to their son.Fugue poses a question: What would happen, if it was me?If given an opportunity to reinvent myself, what would I do?Is love for a child unconditional if, with losing our memory,we also lose our attachment to others? Can a person everregain the feelings that were lost together with thememories? Fugue also deals with the cultural taboosaround maternity. It looks at the social pressure to acceptand desire motherhood unconditionally, just by meansof physiology. But does the biological capacity of givingbirth mean that every woman is supposed to be willing tobecome a mother?
Country(ies) : POLAND, CZECH REPUBLIC, SWEDEN
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