I think that some films are easy to label, and it’s good to label them, and I think some…you know, honestly, I can’t answer that question. Michal Marczak: I like that there is no clear genre designation, and would like to keep it that way. If go to IMDb right now and look up your film, there is no clear genre designation. Hammer to Nail : When I saw your film last year for its Sundance release, it was pitched as a documentary, and in fact it won a Directing Award for World Cinema Documentary at that festival. Here is a condensed digest of our conversation, edited for clarity. I did not re-watch it before our conversation, but remember being simultaneously entranced by its mise-en-scène and disappointed by some parts of its content (what is new in feeling lost after graduation?). Neither entirely fiction nor nonfiction, the movie is part of a new wave of films that defy genre classification. A beautifully shot, elliptical meditation on post-college malaise, the film uses ostensible non-actors (we learn more about this in the interview, below) playing mostly true versions of themselves. I recently spoke by phone with Polish filmmaker Michal Marczak on the occasion of the recent theatrical release of his 2016 Sundance-winning documentary hybrid feature All These Sleepless Nights ( which I reviewed last year).
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