Still from Tomasz Szafrański's "Full Moon", photo: Kino Świat
Lenka (Katarzyna Glinka) is a fortune teller; helped by her "wizard" uncle (Jerzy Bończak), she has the power to get a lot of money out of her clients. Business is profitable until her best client, an inspired Buddist named Iwona (Monika Kwiatkowska) contemplates suicide after her dream man, Oskar (Andrzej Nejman), dumps her. Oskar, a professional marriage fraudster, used Iwona's money to allegedly help poor African children, then disappeared with it all. In a letter to the police, Iwona blames Lenka for her situation. The fortune teller tries to persuade Iwona not to kill herself but must use magic to make Oskar fall in love with Iwona. Things get even more complicated when emotions flourishes between Lenka and Oskar.
The film has had mixed reviewers. "Full Moon has a lot of charm," Konrad J. Zarębski writes in Portal Filmowy, "and more than anything, it has a detailed script, sometimes even too detailed. The creators devoted too much attention to the construction of situations which would distinguish the film from typical romantic comedies". Writing for Interia.pl, Joanna Ostrowska says, "Everything in Mr Tomasz’s film is horribly stereotypical, foreseeable and superficial: the dialogues, the costumes, the characters. Making a scene in which a half naked Andrzej Nejman acts like a macho in front of the mirror in a shabby room should be punishable." Artur Zaborski writing for Stopklatka is more lenient: "As opposed to other commercial romantic comedies in Poland (which Full Moon is not because it leans more towards being an almost erotic thriller), there was really a script written to Szafrański’s film. […] There is a goal and a point to it all. […] Full Moon reflects lots of different traditions, not only from Polish cinema. The first scene for example brings to mind the 1962 Polish fantasy melodrama by Stanislaw Różewicz Głos z tamtego swiata / Voice From Beyond."
A film director and award winning scriptwriter, Tomasz Szafrański is a graduate of the Radio and Television Department of Silesian University in Katowice. He has made etudes, short films, medium-length films and television series. Full Moon is his feature debut.
- Od pełni do pełni / Full Moon, Poland 2012. Director: Tomasz Szafrański, Screenplay: Tomasz Szafrański, Agata Harrison, Jarosław Banaszek, cinematography: Artur Żurawski, set design: Andrzej Rafał Waltenberger, costumes: Iwona Rega. Cast: Andrzej Nejman (Oskar), Katarzyna Glinka (Lenka Lipowska), Monika Kwiatkowska-Dejczer (Iwona), Jerzy Bończak (Filip, Lenka's uncle), Grzegorz Wojdon (Antoś Słowik), Robert Czechowski (Marian), Andrzej Grabowski (Kamiński), Jan Miodek (member of the jury), Hanna Gucwińska (member of the jury), Antoni Gucwiński (member of the jury), Michał Wójcik (Marian's assistant). Production: SPI International Polska, Co-production: Kino Polska, Telekomunikacja Polska.
Sources: based on the article by Bartosz Staszczyszyn for culture.pl
Editor: Marta Jazowska