FUGA

ÚTĚK

By Agnieszka SMOCZYŃSKA

FILM KOLEKTIV - as PROD

Drama - Completed 2018


    • Year of production
    • 2018
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • POLAND, CZECH REPUBLIC, SWEDEN
    • Languages
    • POLISH, ENGLISH
    • Director(s)
    • Agnieszka SMOCZYŃSKA
    • Writer(s)
    • Gabriela MUSCAŁA
    • Producer(s)
    • Agnieszka KURZYDŁO, Karla STOJÁKOVÁ (Axman)
    • Synopsis
    • Alicja has no memory and doesn’t know how she has lost
      it. During two years of living in this condition, she has
      managed to build her new, independent self away from
      home. She doesn’t want to remember who she was before.
      So, when her family finally finds her, she’s suddenly forced
      to fit into the roles of mother, daughter and a wife, and
      relate to people who are now complete strangers to Alicja.
      Similarly, her husband has managed to patch a new life
      back together, because in a way, the former Alicja was
      “dead” to both him and to their son.
      Fugue poses a question: What would happen, if it was me?
      If given an opportunity to reinvent myself, what would I do?
      Is love for a child unconditional if, with losing our memory,
      we also lose our attachment to others? Can a person ever
      regain the feelings that were lost together with the
      memories? Fugue also deals with the cultural taboos
      around maternity. It looks at the social pressure to accept
      and desire motherhood unconditionally, just by means
      of physiology. But does the biological capacity of giving
      birth mean that every woman is supposed to be willing to
      become a mother?