“I’m not good at describing my films.” says the lead character in Mariusz Wilczyński’s maudlin but strangely riveting animation Kill It and Leave This Town.
The Polish writer-director’s style is certainly a challenge to define. The drawing has a crude, old-fashioned charm but his subject matter is startling and often surreal, as horror, humor and nostalgia overlap.
When it’s messy, it’s deliberately so: the artist spent 11 years on this, his first — and strongly autobiographical — feature.
Wilczyński provides the voice of his protagonist Mariuszek, who drifts through scenes in the life of his parents, now deceased.
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