The Peasants (2023)
10/10
Chlopi (The Peasants) is a masterpiece magnificent marvelous international film of this year! Better than Dune PART ll
3 March 2024
An adaptation of a Nobel prize-winning novel from the makers of Loving Vincent using the same rotoscoped oil painting animation style, that's enough to be interested in this. But with the experience from Loving Vincent, they set out to make it even better. With dynamic camera movements that are meant to give an experience rooted in Polish culture and village life, this movie does an incredible job of immersing the viewers in this world. Kamila Urzedowska is incredible as Jagna, the village beauty, whose life is decided by others at every step yet can't take away her free-spiritedness, even with all the shackles. Even though, the story is a classic European village tragedy, the music and animation take it to another level. That ending sequence is just so incredibly shot and animated that it's impossible to not be moved after watching this. Much of the film would've been a lot harder to watch if it was live-action, even though it is quite hard even in this rotoscoped animated style. Artstyle is unique and helps with narrative, it allows viewers to better immerse into the story set in XIX century Poland. The actors did an amazing job and together with the costumes looked like real peasants did. There are many elements of polish folk culture. Throughout the movie, your feelings toward different characters go through their whole spectrum. Music is on another level, simply perfect for this setting. Dune part 1 & 2 makes absolutely no sense, story and script was ridiculous, acting was not so good, character development is mediocre, beginning to end is unwatchable PG13 that does not have a good story. Chlopi has a better story, animation was beautifully done, character development was top notch, story and script was done beautifully. Every scene from Chlopi makes sense and me personally it's one of the best films of this year so far and we're already in March so let's pray for Winnie-the-Pooh Blood and Honey 2 to be magnificent as it can be.
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