Absence blízkosti

This is a film with a challenging journey to find its way to the audience and is currently struggling for attention, given that it’s playing in a few movie theaters. However, it should be noted that the final experience you get if you manage to see the film is exceedingly good and interesting. This psychological drama is about the inner world of the protagonist, who undergoes a fundamental transformation. This transformation is triggered by her new motherhood, and for the first time she asks herself new questions about her relationship with her mother, or rather finds a parallel between the estrangement that prevails between her and her mother and that is creeping in between her and her three-month-old daughter. Absence of Closeness brings up a taboo, uneasy subject, and devotes itself to a view of motherhood that is not popular. It handles it very sensitively. The dialogues between the daughter and the adult mother are raw and unpleasant, but realistic, as are the attempts at reconciliation, which neither of them has a chance to fully appreciate. After a series of weak performances and compromises, Jana Plodková, in the lead role this time, acts with an exquisite inwardness and feeling, which is a position I didn't expect from her anymore. The other actors play to her strengths, especially Anna Cónová, who rarely appears in films for cinema, and Luboš Veselý, whose tiny drawings in any small space are often a joy to look at because they are as precise as a watch. The overall minimalist conception, which is entirely subordinated to highlighting the inner world of the main character, is ideally chosen in pastel colors with an emphasis on blue, in gradual darkness with good composition, so that the film is pleasant to watch even in moments of calm between significant shifts in the plot. (09.11.2017)