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FUGA

By Agnieszka SMOCZYŃSKA

Drama - Completed 2018

Alicja has no memory of her past, but has managed to build a new life and identity. When her family finds her, she doesn’t want her old life, until bits of memories begin to come back. Gradually, her new and old identities merge allowing for an unsettling self-discovery.

- Year of production
- 2018
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- POLAND, CZECH REPUBLIC, SWEDEN
- Languages
- POLISH, ENGLISH
- Duration
- 100 mn
- Director(s)
- Agnieszka SMOCZYŃSKA
- Writer(s)
- Gabriela MUSCAŁA
- Cast
- Gabriela MUSKALA, Lukasz SIMLAT
- Producer(s)
- Agnieszka KURZYDŁO, Karla STOJÁKOVÁ (Axman), Jonas KELLAGHER (COMMONGROUND PICTURES)
- 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?