Marta Balaga SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you intend to watch the film.Berlinale Silver Bear winner Tomasz Wasilewski isn’t afraid of the subject of his latest film “Fools,” even though he focuses on an incestuous relationship between a mother and a son, played by Dorota Kolak and Łukasz Simlat.“It was never my intention to shock anyone.
I just wanted to tell the story of the hardest love of all,” the Polish director tells Variety.“Fools,” produced by Extreme Emotions and lensed by Romanian DP Oleg Mutu, is set to premiere in Karlovy Vary Film Festival’s new section Proxima.
New Europe Film Sales is handling the sales.“I was wondering what would happen if someone close to me came to me now, saying they were in a similar relationship.
I guess, and I can only guess, that at this point in my life, it wouldn’t be a problem,” he adds. Wasilewski met with some experts analyzing the subject of incest while developing the script.
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