The Case of Bronek Pekosinski

Królikiewicz was skating on thin ice twice with this biopic - on the one hand he cast Pekosinski himself in the main role, an eighty-year-old non-actor portraying himself from a young man to old (which still somehow kind of works), but mainly he stretched a simple theme out over a full-length feature (which does not work for me at all). The Case of Bronek Pekosinski is definitely a heartbreaking and interesting story, and because of that you will feel appropriately sorry for the protagonist. However, Pekosinski’s story would have suited the format of a shorter movie or documentary much better, definitely not a drama with an hour and a half running time, which significantly lacks a storyline. Unfortunately, most of the time it seemed unnecessarily padded out. [LFŠ 2019] (08/05/2019)