It Looks Pretty From A Distance

Anka Sasnal's It Looks Pretty From A Distance (Poland, 2012) - A trip into a particular circle of rural Polish hell, "It Looks Pretty From a Distance" finds painter-turned-filmmaker Wilhelm Sasnal applying his photorealist inclinations to a post-industrial community that survives on scrap and salvage, stripped of most of the virtues that would qualify it as human. At a distance is precisely where auds will want to keep the characters, although art-film lovers will embrace Sasnal's feature debut (co-helmed with his wife, sometime-model Anka Sasnal). Commercial potential seems bleak, but festival play has been lusty. 2012NDNF, 2012ROTic. RATING: 7