Never Gonna Snow Again

Simultaneously gripping and sweetly bewildering.

This is a fairytale: but a fantasy with solidity and form.

A filmthat asks a question for every answer it gives, and whose crackerjack images leave you wondering, in the best of senses: wait, what did I just see?

A captivating work of art with a very potent premise.

In the lead, Utgoff gives off a distinctive, alluring presence that's in sync with the film's otherworldly vibe.

Don't look for logic or literalness here, but rather magic and metaphor and let the film's transporting, imaginative elements take over.

Hypnotizes with arresting imagery and unpredictable character interactions, taking its audience on an enigmatic and atmospheric exploration into capitalism, climate change, and spirituality.

Story-wise, Never Gonna Snow Again (...) is a healing journey much like Body/Ciało (2015). The snow falling on the characters in the finale has the same cathartic power of the frogs falling from the sky in Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia (1999).

It examines, with a layer of magical realism and visual allegories, the socio-political condition of the Ukrainian immigrant, but I don't think even Alec Utgoff's solid effort prevents it from slowly falling like a flake of snow. [Full review in Spanish]

Too muted and contained to be a satirical comedy, too cold, and a little cryptic, but dazzling in its art design and composition, Never Gonna Snow Again ratifies Szumowska as an inescapable reference in Polish cinema. [Full review in Spanish]