Red Yellow Pink

CinemaSerf

2025-11-06

⭐ 5

Ok, so this can’t have had much of a budget but surely auteur Jolanta Warpechowski could have relied less on some simplistic stereotypes and maybe taken a few risks with the characterisations? This follows the story of “Maciej” (David Paul) whose fairly devout Catholic mum (Agnieszka Salamon) crosses herself at every opportunity whilst his Jewish dad (Wojciech Galzinski) takes an altogether more pragmatic view of life. That’s probably just as well because their teenage son has a secret! His moving in with “Dawid” (Adrian Koszewski) is just the start of their problems though, as it turns out th…

This movie was billed as a struggle between a gay son and his ultra-religious mother. Meh, kind of... Yes, the son was gay and his mother finds out and she doesn't react well at all, in fact there is a lot of hostility in one scene, then he leaves home and only sees her two more times afterwards, at which time they don't really talk...so saying that this was the premise of the movie is a bit of an oversell. It really is more about him coming to terms with living his own life and adjusting to having HIV which his former boyfriend infected him with. It is a very sad movie with no happy ending an…