Love Tasting / Ostatni komers
Poland 2020
Directed by Dawid Nickel, drama, 85 min, eng subtitles, 16+
Written by Dawid Nickel
With Mikołaj Matczak, Sandra Drzymalska, Nel Kaczmarek, Agnieszka Żulewska
It is the last day of school at a junior high school in a small Polish town. Waiting for the graduation party, a group of students hang out around a public pool. Olivia lost her virginity a few days ago and, in distress, heads to a pharmacy to buy a pregnancy test. Tomek is fascinated by older Kuba, the new boyfriend of his twin sister Monika. The siblings’ love and friendship is put to the test when Tomek confesses to Monika his biggest secret…
With the remarkable natural acting of the young protagonists, the film builds a strikingly believable portrait of modern youth on the threshold of adulthood, searching for their identity, the sense of belonging and relationships.