When that fling surges into something more - Krzysztof says he’s at last found “a girl who constantly makes me feel this challenge of how great I have to be in order to be with a girl like her” - the besties drift apart. Then Krzysztof spends the night with Eva (the effervescent Eva Lebuef), Michal’s ex, and the Jules et Jim connection becomes even more explicit. Roommates Krzysztof and Michal gab and dance and so fully fill out each other’s worlds that you might hope that they’ll be the ones to hook up. No matter what’s staged and what’s “real,” the film courses with the thrill of the truth of their liberation. But the roiling party we witness here is real, the non-principals not extras but kids who were there, losing themselves in nights that come to blend together. Those beats, looping and hypnotic, are probably layered in for the film, which uses very little natural sound - boom mics would have cut against these kids’ ability to ignore the film crew.
Above all, this crowd dances, at clubs and in flats, on the beach and through traffic, to blunted electro hip hop that seems less the music they like than the element they inhabit. sense of a sleeping city belonging only to you and your most restless friends. Krzysztof sprints across the hoods of parked police cars, setting their sirens off, and the thrill of this stunt is compounded by its realness, by that early-a.m. Warsaw is their playground, their thumping club, their persistent high. As Marczak’s camera bobs and glides behind and around them, the young men dash through the streets, duck through subway tunnels, watch fireworks from an apartment, fall for and then shake off young women and occasionally even vault drug-fueled through the daytime world, so blissed out they say things like, “How cool would it be to say ‘good morning’ to everyone?” Too propulsively aimless to be anything other than life, but too fluid in its photography and precise in its compositions to be documentary, Michal Marczak’s pulsing youth-right-now dazzler whirls with two real-life friends (Krzysztof Baginski and Michal Huszcza, playing themselves) and their occasional lovers through a year and a half of vivid Warsaw nights.
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