Celts

'Celts' is an intimate ensemble play of a single day of ordinary people. The world is going mad around them. The war that just started would go much nastier and much longer. But they don't know it. Just like any ordinary people (you and me, basically), we are just looking to get through another day, full of little private frustrations, hang ups, and momentary smiles. There's no magical solution, no grand finale, and nothing really goes as planned, but we carry on so long we manage to find a small relief, a relic of love and a glimpse of hope.

What I commend the most about 'Celts' is the balance. It's so easy to opt for more melodrama, big catastrophe, or letting one character steal the show. But 'Celts' manages its own pace, always managing to pick up little moments of each character's own story (even from just a passing character like the passenger in the father's taxi). We never fully get to understand all the ins and outs of one character, but we sense these are real people with their own lives and their own stories. It's no mean feat to pull off.

Great potrays of people and their surroundings, shown with kindness and understanding. Humor and sadness walk together and magic is hidding in unexpected things and places. In other review someone said that this movie is unpretentious and that is exactly how it is. It just flows, catching our attention and hearts. It's full of life, and by that I mean human desires, searching for them, sometimes finding, sometimes not, and other times - just finding something else. And that is all right, because we are humans and we have other humans beside us.

Watched on Tofifest Kujawy i Pomorze, Torun, Poland 2022.

A beautiful unpretentious little movie Btw, I think that unpretentiousness is underrated. This is warm, it is light, yet profound, it is a movie that I cannot recommend warmly enough.