Product Details

• Actors: Patryk Czajka, Grzegorz Przybyl
• Directors: Lech Majewski
• Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Surround Sound, Widescreen
• Language: English
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: KINO INTERNATIONAL
• DVD Release Date: August 12, 2008
• Run Time: 100 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001A33YUO
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #193,620 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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•MPAA Rating: UNRATED
•Format: DVD
•Runtime: 100 minutes

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Glass Lips is like stepping into a world of imagination and bizarre fantasy, March 22, 2009

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Richard J. Brzostek (New England, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Glass Lips (DVD)

Glass Lips is ostensibly a Polish film but there is no dialogue. Unquestionably, I would have to say that it is one of the most unusual films I ever saw in my life. I also find it difficult to put Glass Lips into a genre because it is so unlike most movies. It is an art film or more accurately, it could be called art in the form of a film.

The story is a jumble of short clips that take place at various times and we slowly learn about the past and present. A young man is in an insane asylum and we see him imagining things that are his own creations or reminders of his past. His parents were on the strange side and passed on to their child the kind of behavior that can get one locked up in a bedlam. Although his father was not physically abusive, he had bizarre ways of punishing him that were all part of his father's past. We also see segments of his parents' personal history that is unlikely he actually witnessed. It may take some watching and re-watching to sort out what events are actual and which are imagined.

Although I am no means an expert on Lech Majewski's films, I have to say there are some similarities between Glass Lips and another film I saw by Majewski, Roe's Room. The style and feel are similar, which can simplistically be described as highly unusual and artistic. Both also use actors without much or any film credits to their name.

Glass Lips is like stepping into a world of imagination and bizarre fantasy. If you have an appreciation for visual art or theater, there is a chance Glass Lips may appeal to you but I suspect it is not a movie that most people will enjoy.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Shattering, August 15, 2008

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"Rocky Raccoon" "Hey, Doc, It's Only ... (Wild, Wild, West) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Glass Lips (DVD)

Wordless, yet artful `Glass Lips' is sure to please the art crowd with exquisite camera shots and its symbolic thrust. Not as evocative as 'Syndromes and a Century,' but easily more accessible, the movie mulls over the process and fallout of one father's abuse. While the series of short films don't entirely tell a linear story, the threads are meticulously woven to give a composite picture and a concrete ending.

Written, directed, shot, and produced by Lech Majewski, this Polish film mostly ponders the relationship between Sebastian (Patryk Czajka) and his abusive father (Grzegory Pryybyl). Instead of showing scenes of beating, yelling, and mental abuse, the damage is mostly implied antecedently.

In an early scene a young Sebastian knocks over a beverage glass during dinner, prompting his father to restrain his son with a dog collar and leash as he eats his meal doggy style out of a dish placed on the floor. In later scenes the boy engages in bizarre behavior, but as we see him as an adult, he's confined to a sanitarium shown in several scenes. In contrast his father is free with a calloused, carefree attitude toward women in a way that suggests they're interchangeable for him. Many of the vignettes, illustrate Sebastian's repressed sexuality as he's shown in confinement and in frozen meat lockers.

Among the most tangible elements is its religious imagery. Making easy references to "Abraham and Isaac" as well as Jesus's Passion, his inner anguish is given a visible context.

One of my favorite moments is when he's at the mental hospital while looking at a picture of a mountain. After he tears the photo in two, he starts rubbing the sides together, creating an avalanche that you can hear as sediment pours down on his head.

Abstract, yet rewarding, `Glass Lips' doesn't try to pull the wool over our eyes. If you're inclined to the art house cinema, you won't want to miss this mural exhibit that does indeed paint a delicate story with expert skill.

A J.P.'s Pick 3.5 *'s =Good-Very Good

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1.0 out of 5 stars Glass Lips, September 27, 2008

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This review is from: Glass Lips (DVD)

Musze przyznac ze nie jestem zbytnio zaangazowany we wspolczesna filmoteke polska. Jednakze po przeczytaniu (bardzo urozmaiconego) artystycznego zyciorysu Lecha Majewskiego, postanowilem obejrzes jego film z 2007 roku 'Glass Lips' (Director: Lech Majewski Cast: Patryk Czajka, Joanna Litwin,Grzegorz Przybyl, Misia Rutkowska). Majewski napisal tez (razem ze Skrzekiem) muzyke, oraz byl odpowiedzialny za dzwiek.
Temat filmu przedstawiony jest w trzech opowiesciach, czesciowo od siebie zaleznych, i dotyczy odciskow dziecinstwa oraz relacji pomiedzy dziecmi i rodzicami. Film, w ktorym kazda scena rozpoczyna sie duza dawka bolu, przestal mnie interesowac po pierwszych 30 minutach. Kolejne sceny powielaja tylko ten sam problem, niczym poobiednia czkawka. Nawet obfitosc mesko-damskiej golizny nie byla w stanie przytrzymac moich opadajacych powiek.
Oprocz dzwieku, swietnie podkreslajacego sceny wizualne, na pochwale zasluguje tez gra bohaterow filmu, ktorych bezslowna komunikacja pozwala nam odczuc cala game ich emocji. W skrocie, jest to film arystyczny ktory do znudzenia powiela swoj temat, calkiem niczym 'Campbell Soup' Warhola.