... a Polish version of a middle-aged haggard-mother-wife suffering mid-life crisis... fairly well acted-produced.. there's really nothing new, yet it is better than many others in its category... the ending if anything is a letdown.. being one of those 'whatever-you-want-it-to-be' finales
... 2nd-3rd viewing... went back looking at the ending a couple different times... finally understand, she was confirming a choice at the ending... one she had been making over and over throughout the entire movie, told in a final-gaze ... possibly her family coming to that realization as well.
My Wonderful Life
2021 [POLISH]
Action / Comedy / Drama / Romance
Plot summary
A caring daughter, a laid-back mother, a popular teacher, a wife you are thick as thieves with – Joanna – is outstanding in each of these roles. But in none of them does she feel like herself. That is why she leads a double life. She has a secret she shares with no-one.
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February 28, 2022 at 03:42 PM
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.... revised-review.. coming to a personal opinion that changed
My Happy, "Wounderful" Family
It takes too long to establish the story's thrust; and it lacks drive.
It's a serious film that explores the challenges that a wife and teacher and mother faces on a daily basis and she's about ready to give up. This film has the same vibe as the Georgian film, My Happy Family (Cheni Bednieri Okakhi). Agata Buzek is in the same predicament as Ia Shugliashvili in the latter film.
The final scene is oddly funny if it wasn't all about a serious matter.
My admiration for director Lukasz Grzegorzek for efforts to make this film work.
A crude portrait of life after 40
To portray a "wonderful life", I emphasize in quotes, it is necessary to reflect the triviality of mundane life; If you have experienced any of the roles seen in the film, you will understand what this comment is about. It is not easy to show the dark sides of life after forty, nor to embody the solutions we find to survive the apathy and inconsistency of social stigmas. I appreciate the ending, and I dream that this is how most all the true stories end.