About
“Z daleka widok jest piekny” (It looks pretty from a distance) takes place in a secluded Polish village near the woods and a river. It is here, were a love story between a scrapper and a girl unfolds. In an air of ubiquitous secrecy, the villagers and the couple live their every-day dull lives of hardship until the scrapper vanishes. His disappearance triggers a chain of unexpected events. In strikingly beautiful surroundings, under a scorching sun, human evil surfaces.
Mixture of sumptuous cinematography and bleak social realism.
— Laurence Boyce, Screen Daily
It is not a movie about frustration but about selfless evil that may reveal itself in any time and space regardless of political system.
— Katarzyna Taras, Stopklatka
“It Looks Pretty from a Distance” is a kind of parable stripped of any ornaments and it refutes one of the biggest Polish myths. (…) the movie’s formal minimalism perfectly harmonises with the perspective of the reserved observers that are not interested in psychology but in the mechanisms governing a small community.
— Paweł Felis, Gazeta Wyborcza
It is the first Polish movie that establishes an aesthetic dialogue with the cinema present for many years on the New Horizons Festival(…) Besides, this film touches the most painful problems of Polish community. Until now, Polish cinema was not able to undertake such problems.
— Jakub Majmurek, Krytyka Polityczna