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THE HORSE TAIL

Justyna Łuczaj - Salej
2023  Polonia  76'
Cast: Remigiusz Pocica, Ryta Kurak, Przemysław Bluszcz, Anouchka Kolbuch, Wojciech Białas, Tomasz Mularski, Lorance Cros

Ai piedi di una scogliera, tra una discarica, dei fienili e una foresta, c'è un luogo dove le persone stringono relazioni incestuose e custodiscono dolorosi segreti.

Screenplay Justyna Łuczaj
Producer Marcin Malatyński
Photography Małgorzata Szyłak
Set Designer Tomasz Rolniak, Justyna Łuczaj
Editor Urszula Klimek-Piątek, Paweł Laskowski, Justyna Łuczaj
Music Mikołaj Trzaska

At the foot of a cliff, between a rubbish dump, barns and a forest, there is a place where people form incestuous relationships and hold painful secrets.

 

The Horse Tail is a junk version of the myth of Oedipus. Diana ageing prostitute, comes back to a small town. She has memory blanks and milk streams from her breasts. Maj an orphan and outcast suspects that she is his mother. When they meet Diana treats him like a client. In the forest the policeman’s was raped and Maj is accused of it. The atmosphere gets much tenser when Maj becomes a friend with girl, daughter of policeman and a victim. Their relationship, based on their particular sensitivity and their opposition to the rotten world they live in, does not stand a chance of surviving. While they are playing in a river, a horse’s tail twines around their bodies. Maj knows that it is a bad sign.



Justyna Łuczaj Salej is film director, screenwriter, TV producer also painter, visual artist, and university lecturer (University of Rzeszów, Institute of Fine Arts). Graduated in Painting from the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow (2000) and in Film Directing at The Polish National Film School in Lodz (2007). 





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