The 27th Polish Film Festival in America runs Friday, November 6, through Sunday, November 22, at Facets Cinematheque, 1517 W. Fullerton; Rosemont 18, 9701 Bryn Mawr, Rosemont; and Society for Arts, 1112 N. Milwaukee. Tickets are $15, and a festival pass, good for seven screenings, is $75; for more information call 773-486-9612 or pffamerica.com.
These Daughters of Mine Two sisters—the older a bitchy TV star (Agata Kulesza), the younger a fragile underachiever (Gabriela Muskala)—lock horns after their mother is left comatose by a stroke and their father is diagnosed with a brain tumor. “No man wants a woman who always wears pants,” the father tells the older daughter, though in fact both women seem intent on jamming themselves into the same pair. There’s some decent poker-faced comedy in the early scenes, as the older sister brings in a spiritualist to assess the mother and the younger one persuades family members to be prayed over by a shaman as they lie on a mandala-decorated carpet. Once the father takes ill, though, this settles into more mundane family drama, with the obligatory taboo-smashing scene of the actress and her dad puffing on the same joint. Kinga Dębska directed her own script. 88 min. Dębska attends the screening, which is sold out. Sat 11/7, 7 PM, Rosemont. v
