REVERSE
Friday, January 15 @ 7:00pm
Melnitz Hall 1409 - James Bridges Theater

Director Borys Lankosz will be present for a post-screening Q&A with Roman Koropeckyj (UCLA Slavic Department/ Associate Professor of Slavic Languages & Literatures) sponsored by UCLA International Institute, Center for
European and Eurasian Studies

Winner 11 awards at the 2009 Gdynia Polish Film Festival; FIPRESCI Award, Warsaw Film Festival

During the peak of Stalinist terror in communist Poland, 30 year-old Sabina is presented with a string of unsuitable candidates to marry by her determined mother and savvy but ailing grandmother. One night a
mysterious handsome stranger rescues her from a mugging and sweeps her off her feet. Their romance takes a dark turn when he asks her to spy on her boss, unleashing sinister events.

“Rich with references to Polish culture and cinema history, the genre-juggling feature debut of prize-winning documaker Borys Lankosz is clever, complex and spiked with a special kind of black humor…pic boasts pitch-perfect performances from a stellar cast. Told from a female perspective, the elegant screenplay by literary talent Andrzej Bart revels in allusions, jokes and paradoxes, taking clichés about life in the Stalinist era and turning them inside out.” - Alissa Simon, Variety

DIRECTOR and WRITER: Borys Lankosz
CAST: Agata Buzek, Krystyna Janda, Anna Polony, Marcin Dorocinski,Adam Woronowicz, Bronislaw Wroclawski
In Polish with English subtitles
101 min

* This screening is FREE to the UCLA community, including students, staff,faculty, and guests unless otherwise noted.

* Tickets are available at the Melnitz box office the day of the screening one hour before show time and are given out on a first come, first serve basis--one ticket per person!

* No late seating!