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Canada · 2019
1h 4m
Director Sofia Bohdanowicz
Starring Deragh Campbell, Aaron Danby, Elizabeth Rucker, Mariusz Sibiga
Genre Drama
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A young woman discovers letters in a Harvard archive that her great-grandmother wrote to a fellow Polish poet.
The Globe and Mail (Toronto) by Barry Hertz
Campbell is tasked with carrying much of the film’s action and dialogue -- including two seemingly rambling but actually profound monologues delivered to unseen audiences in a nondescript bar -- and easily commands the screen.
In its balance of a wispy narrative and long, quiet episodes of textual close reading, the film feels incomplete in a productive way.
The Hollywood Reporter by Deborah Young
If the title MS Slavic 7 fails to ring a bell, its abstractness conveys the industrious intellectual labor demanded by this witty one-hour Canadian film.
The Film Stage by Jared Mobarak
Those uninterested in cinema’s experimental and formal qualities probably won’t find themselves sitting down to be disappointed or bored by its very insular nature anyway. So those seeking it out will be the ones with the desire to embrace its unorthodox narrative style and subtle progressions.
The Guardian by Peter Bradshaw
This curious, truncated piece tells us nothing substantial about Zofia Bohdanowiczowa or Józef Wittlin – or, indeed, about anything at all.
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