Silent Land

2021

1h 53m

Drama

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90%

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21 Reviews

A perfect couple rents a holiday home on a sunny Italian island. The reality does not live up to their expectations when they find out that the pool in the house is broken. Ignorant of the fact that the island faces water shortage, they ask for someone to fix it. The constant presence of a stranger invades the couple's idea of safety and starts a chain of events, which makes them act instinctively and irrationally, heading to the darkest place in their relationship.

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Anton Bitel

Little White Lies

Silent Land plays very much in the key of Austria’s Michael Haneke, chillingly exposing class entitlement and the aloofness that the rich maintain – even in an emergency – from the grubby mortality of the poor.

Sep 23, 2022

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Leslie Felperin

Guardian

[A] methodical and incisive debut feature...

Rated: 3/5

Sep 20, 2022

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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

AWFJ.org

Resisting any need to make overt judgements, in Silent Land Woszczyńska confidently steps back and lets us make our own call about the moral questions her film prompts in her compelling, enigmatic debut.

Oct 21, 2021

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Joshua Polanski

In Review Online

Silent Land bores by reveling too much in its own insincere cleverness, even if Woszczyńska and her filmmaking team show promise as visual thinkers.

Jun 5, 2024

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Roger Moore

Movie Nation

A tad too quiet and deliberate for its own good.

Rated: 2.5/4

May 27, 2024

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Hilary A White

Sunday Independent (Ireland)

Subtle, sly imagery quakes loudly around the impossibly picturesque couple, as slow-panning shots depict an uncaring world turning away in the background.

Rated: 5/5

Sep 28, 2022

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Synopsis

A perfect couple rents a holiday home on a sunny Italian island. The reality does not live up to their expectations when they find out that the pool in the house is broken. Ignorant of the fact that the island faces water shortage, they ask for someone to fix it. The constant presence of a stranger invades the couple's idea of safety and starts a chain of events, which makes them act instinctively and irrationally, heading to the darkest place in their relationship.

Director: Agnieszka Woszczynska, Agnieszka Woszczyńska
Producer: Giovanni Pompili, Agnieszka Wasiak
Screenwriter: Agnieszka Woszczynska, Agnieszka Woszczyńska, Piotr Jaksa Litwin
Production Co: Eurimages, I/O post, Státní fond kinematografie , Polski Instytut Sztuki Filmowej, Kino Produzioni, Ministero della Cultura (MiC), Lava Films, EC1 Lódz - Miasto Kultury, Fondazione Sardegna Film Commission, Canal+ Polska
Genre: Drama
Original Language: Polish
Runtime: 1h 53m