WasAnnon Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

SanEat A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

Lachlan Coulson This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

Tobias Burrows It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

francocutroneo My girlfriend (she is Polish) and I were very curious about this title. Soon we realised that it was very strange the way the director approached the all Polish culture, I mean he based the movie on stereotypes. We think this director should apologies to all the Polish nation.. He should have at least worked a bit better on the accents...it sounded like an Italian-Russian-Hungarian mix rather than Polish. It give really the idea that Polish people are silly and leaving in low expectations, whereas is not like that at all..I have watched thousand and thousands of movies due to the nature of my job, and cant remember a worst film than this one!Maybe one day it will become a classic as "the best badly made comedy"

haashaus Most of the other respondents to this movie were Polish (or descended). I am neither. In fact, I'll admit to being of pure German stock. They (Polish people) were understandably offended by this movie. But this movie (a hate movie) goes beyond being offensive to a nationality of people. It attempts to tag morality, Polish people, and Christianity (of the Catholic kind) all as hypocrites. This movie is a propaganda film which people had to pay money to see!!!??? Leni Reifenstahl made better movies fur Der Furher than this one is!!!If you remember hearing Polish jokes as a kid, they weren't funny, and were very insipid, just think of this movie as an attempt to take those jokes and turn them into a movie. Would you pay money for this? I sat through (as in: "endured") this movie to gather information about it when it was ended (thankfully). If you're just looking for entertainment, this movie fails miserably. The only other value this movie could have is its value as a hate film.

vvsing This movie is highly entertaining with unpredictable, character-driven, plot twists that pull you in like the smell of comfort food cooking in the kitchen. The story itself is a grand view into the mundane working world of fighting, resentments, loyalty and ultimate forgiveness, of a large Polish family all living together in the same house.Mother and daughter are powerful and attractive and the men alternately ignore them, wait for them, and chase after them. The matriarch of the family is romantically unfulfilled but finds meaning and purpose in the context of her family and children. The daughter is growing into adulthood and recognizing her feminine power in the context of a budding relationship but, like her mother before her, ultimately trapped. The members of this emotional but practical Polish immigrant family don't live life, life lives them. The characters and performances make this movie well worth watching.

Turambar-3 If you have a sense of humor and are over the age of 30 you'll probably understand and love this film as much as I did. It'd be hard to beat the quality of the cast unless one was filming a movie about American football or Kabuki theatre, and the script lives up to their quality.Gabriel Byrne is excellent as a hard-working Polish father who finds refuge from his family in his bakery. Lena Olin is perfect as the beautiful mother with five children who makes one last desperate and menopausal escape attempt from what she sees as her Catholic prison sentence. Claire Danes is their funny, chaotic, excessively hormonal and headstrong daughter who sets out to lose her virginity just as she is selected to lead the community's Catholic procession as the Virgin Mary. The rest of the cast has earned accolades in other works and they're equally credible here. All of the characters somehow succeed in winning the viewer's affection, and all of them are human. There's a pleasant craft about this film along with a pleasing and sardonic sense of humor. I've seen it three times now over several years, and it always draws me in.