Stimulants & Empathogens
Original Title
Stymulanty & Empatogeny- Director: Mateusz Pacewicz
- Writer: Mateusz Pacewicz
- Producer: Agnieszka Bedkowska, Zbigniew Domagalski, Krzysztof Lach, Katarzyna Madaj-Kozlowska, Filip Marczewski, Marta Szumska
CGiii Comment
If this film doesn't put Mateusz Pacewicz on everyone's radar...nothing will.
Technically faultless...but, it's the writing, the acting, the direction that brings the comedic awkwardness, the drama, the empathy, the mayhem together.
25 minutes of infinite artistry...few features can carry that boast. Seriously, this is a work of supreme talent...from everyone involved.
Film-schools should set this as a benchmark...saying: if you can't do as good as this...then, don't bother.
We say to all short-film-makers: if you can't match this...please, desist...the LGBT short film archive is already packed with litter.
We say to film festivals...stop screening rubbish! Screen films of this quality instead.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
Antek (18), a polite and secretive teenager from a wealthy family, invites a drug dealer, Kuba (18), with whom he is hopelessly in love, to his villa under the pretext of another drug transaction. Antek does not know, however, that Kuba is visiting him on a mission he received from his superiors: his father (47) and brother (26). The drug dealer's family suspects that Antek is selling the mephedrone he buys from them every week at his school at a profit, so Kuba is asked to investigate the situation.
Cast & Characters
Michal Murawski (as Antek Pelc-Jablonowski)
Gracjan Kosyl (as Kuba Szpak)
Anita Sokolowska (as Róza Jablonowska-Pelc)
Grzegorz Malecki (as Marek Pelc)
Andrzej Konopka (as Piotr Szpak)
Jan Kowalewski (as Kamil Szpak)