05th Apr2014

Floating Skyscrapers – DVD

by timbaros
images-147There have not been too many Gay & Lesbian films from Poland but in the past year there have been two. The first was ‘In The Name Of,’ which dealt with a homosexual priest, and was well-received by the critics. Now comes ‘Floating Skyscrapers’ which is about a young athlete torn between his love for another boy and the love of his girlfriend.
Directed by gay Polish director Tomasz Wasilewski, Floating Skyscrapers is a dramatic filled movie about Kuba (a very good and very sexy Mateusz Banasiuk) who swims on his high school swim team and lives with his young girlfriend and also with his mother. He meets and falls in love with Michal (Bartosz Gelner), but at the same time doesn’t want to ruin his relationship with his girlfriend (an excellent Marta Nieradkiewicz). There are lots of lingering moments of silence in Floating Skyscrapers that increases the dramatic tension in the film, bringing it to a surprising ending. Wasilewski says that when he was 13 he went to New York on vacation and while sightseeing, he was facing the skyscrapers of Manhattan, and he had the words ‘floating skyscrapers’ stuck in his head from then, it was an image that he continued to remember, so much so that he told himself that one day he will write a movie with that title. Then when he was writing the script, he was looking for a metaphor for happiness, for this place where everything will be okay. Wasilewski’s first film was 2012’s In A Bedroom, where a 40 year-old woman prowls the internet posing as a series of different women in search of casual sex. And now with Floating Skyscrapers, Wasilewski is not only a rising talent in his native homeland in Poland but also an out gay director who will definitely go on to make many more excellent movies.