A man quits everything, falls for an angel, and refuses to come back to reality — and honestly? Same.
Jakub's life arrived at a dead-end. He leaves his job, and gets into conflict with his father. The trouble just grows by his relation with a married woman. Breaking out, Jakub realizes the pleasures of the countryside in the old garden of his grandfather. He finds true love with an angel, and encounters various exciting moments of his new free life. Strange visitors arrive, and he wont get back to town anymore.
Cinematography
The garden glows like a memory you're not sure you had.
Direction
Šulík blurs reality and fantasy without explaining anything.
Acting
Roman Luknár's deadpan surrender to the absurd is perfect.
Director
Martin Šulík
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Slovak cinema's post-communist identity crisis made poetic — escapism as political statement.
The garden was a real location that Šulík found abandoned; he refused to explain the levitation to the cast.
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