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Acting
Gierszał's physical transformation is genuinely disturbing then triumphant.
Direction
Palkowski refuses to sanitize addiction's ugliness.
Practical Effects
1980s Poland recreated with depressing authenticity.

Director
Łukasz Palkowski
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