Jan Czarlewski – Stammering love

Tim is 23 years old. He stammers a lot. His friend is a charmer. For Tim, seducing a girl is difficult.

Diploma project (2012) by Jan Czarlewski

Know-how: Fiction

Fiction / 20min

Synopsis

Tim is 23 years old. He’s intelligent, rather good looking, but he stammers. Seducing a girl is an ordeal. Encouraged by his friend, he will try and reach for the brass ring – Victoria, a pretty girl he met boxing. However, he has trouble stringing two words together…

Commentaire

The bodies and their defects, their weights, their dysfunctions, their failures. Watching Jan's film is a physical experience. We breathe with this character and suffer with him. We are the young girl who listens, the one who tells him "you want to", the friend who encourages him. And the relationship that is gradually established with the boxer brings us closer to this last unique and untranslatable scene. A scene of cinema.

Hippolyte Girardot / Actor, director

Festivals

2012 Winterthur - Suisse - Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, Compétition
2012 Locarno - Suisse - Festival del film Locarno, séction pardi di domani (concorso Nazionale) - Pardino d'argent (pardi di domani concorso nazionale)
2012 Genève - Suisse - Cinéma Tous Ecrans-Féstival international du cinéma et de télévision, Compétition Suisse
2013 Angers - France - Festival premier plan d'angers
2013 Clermont-Ferrand – France - Festival international du court métrage, Compétition
2013 Nijmegen - Pays-Bas - "the Breaking Shorts Student Competition at the Go Short - International Short Film Festival Nijmegen"
2013 Kustendorf – Serbie - Kustendorf International Film & Music Festival - Golden Egg Award

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