Father ploughs a supermarket with oxen, the plough ripping up tiles. A girl in a bikini tempts the hero on the snowy slopes of the Matterhorn. A forest full of the dead and Niagara falling onto a cathedral altar. These are the visions of Adam, a poet who has lost his beloved one in a car crash. A national tragedy imposes on a personal one. It is 2010, a Biblical year for Poland with floods, fires, landslides and the catastrophe of the presidential plane being torn apart in mysterious circumstances along with the nation’s elite, 96 people on board. Adam gives up his job as a professor of literature to work at a supermarket checkout. Yet all he wants is to sleep, escaping from his painful reality. For him the only text to read in these hard times is Divine Comedy. And it is Dante’s masterpiece that brings back some meaning to Adam’s life..
Lech MajewskiLech Majewski is a Polish film and theatre director, writer, poet, and painter. Born in Katowice, Poland, Majewski studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. In the 1970s, he then studied at the National Film School in Łódź, notably as a student of Wojciech Has, who taught Majewski directing. In the early 80s, after completing The Knight and as martial law was declared in Poland, Majewski emigrated to England and then to the United States, where he lived for most of the late Communist era. He is a member of the American and European film academies and the Polish International PEN. He is a writer and director, known for Bruegel, The Mill and the Cross (2011), The Garden of Earthly Delights (2004) and Basquiat (1996).
In 2006, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City hosted a complete retrospective of Majewski's work. This was their first ever full retrospective of a Polish filmmaker, and one of their only ever mid-career retrospectives. For that program, Majewski created the film eventually called Glass Lips, though initially it was known as Blood of a Poet. In 2006-2007, Wendy Lidell of International Film Circuit circulated a retrospective of his work across the United States and Canada.
- Montreal World Film Festival (2014)
- Odessa Film Festival (2014) Official Competition
- Special Screening in The National Gallery of London (2014)
- Moscow International Film Festival (2014) Heavenly Euphoria Section
- Istanbul International Film Festival (2014) Masters Section
