Filmmaker Grzegorz Cisiecki dropped me a line recently and asked me to check out his short film, Smoke. I gave it a look-see, and while I can't honestly say that I "got" it, I can tell you this: It's beautifully shot, artsy, dark, sexy and ambiguous--like if David Lynch had directed Eyes Wide Shut instead of Kubrick. It does have an air of pretentiousness about it (the synopsis of the film is given as "The story of the person who became the captive of surrealistic madness"), but show me an art film that doesn't.
Give it a gander, and let me know what you think.
--J/Metro
