The Wedding

2004 "This is a story about love and money… but actually about love for money"
7.7| 1h49m| en
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Wojnar is a wealthy man who is marrying off his beautiful daughter Kasia, in a small town in present day Poland. Wojnar had to bribe the groom with a fancy car, since Kasia was pregnant by another man. At the end of the ceremony, the car is delivered by a gangster, who immediately demands the promised money and the deed to land from Kasia's grandfather. Unfortunately grandpa is unwilling to let go of the land. Meanwhile each of the workers at the reception demand to be paid, so Wojnar, who is very reluctant to part with his money, tries to haggle and bribe his way out of all the situations.

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Jeanskynebu the audience applauded
Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.
Robert Joyner The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one
Yash Wade Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.
valis1949 WEDDING transforms a joyous occasion into a real 'Walk On The Wild Side". I am unfamiliar with Polish demographics, but I would imagine that, in America, the people depicted in the film would be called, "Hillbillies". And, by that I mean people who live in a remote, rural area in the South, often in the Appalachian (Or sometimes Ozark) Mountains, and therefore are isolated and somewhat out of touch with modern culture. In short, they would best be described as, "Rude, Crude, and Lewd". WEDDING is not funny unless you have a particularly diseased sense of humor. However, it is exceedingly twisted and perverse. Worth a look.
Kuba_D From the first scenes of the film where the father of the bride gets furious because the video-operator doesn't have on tape the moment where he brings the daughter to the groom, you already know that Smarzowski's movie will be ruled by the law of absurd.The story evolves like in a drunken vision. The local wealthy man Wojnar (Marian Dziedziel) is getting his daughter married and he buys them a luxurious Audi TT as a gift. What Wojnar doesn't know is that the car is stolen, but what he does know is that excluding the money, he must give two thousand acres of land to the gangster who brought the car for him. The land however is grandfather's and he is not willing to sell it. On one hand the viewer sees the wedding on which Tymon Tymanski sings out 'The White Bear' and hosts some totally embarrassing games. Everybody are getting drunk, argue and strangely enough tend to undress. On the other hand the criminal plot evolves. The gangster (Pawel Wilczak) gets angry with Wojnar for the delay. He shoots off his finger and after the arrangements are done, he leaves him with false papers.'Wesele' is similar to a volcano - ready to blow up. The grandfather dies, but his corpse doesn't seem to have an effect on anybody. The bride watches if the her ex-boyfriend is beaten good. Wojnar drives home for money, but is stopped by the police. The filled toilet explodes and pours out what becomes a metaphor of the disgusting on-screen world. Everybody here is covered in... 'excrements'. Everything smells and bring disgust.Wojciech Smarzowski has made a logical, with an aim to be dirty and a great realization. The camera who watches over what man would like to hide most.From "Wesele" which wants to portrait the modern Polish mentality, just as Wyspianski's play wanted to (there is even a quote from the play - "one should be in boots at the wedding"), comes out a whole catalog of our bad sides. The characters are sick about the money. They envy, lie and cheat. And it is not Wojnar who is the most disgusting here - it is his company surrounding him. Starting with the administrator, the musician and the bride. Because everybody can be saint and indigested when bad, mean and nasty is always 'he', 'someone', 'the other one'.
trixie650203 I rarely comment on films but I have to respond to the American commenter who said that this film was an utter confusion. It's no wonder that someone from Texas does not understand this way of life, but we here, after 50 years of communism do understand it. Drinking, materialism, corruption, bribery, blackmailing, rape etc. These were the basics of our lives for decades and it is so sad to see that there is no improvement in Poland after the fall of the Iron Curtain. The events depicted are very similar to those that would take place in rural Hungary. The movie was quite amusing but very sad at the same time.
Witold Brostow If one tries to follow the logic in the film, one finds just too many contradictions and discontinuities. The bride noticed only after the wedding vows were exchanged that her new husband wanted the Audi car and not her ? Only at the wedding reception in front of a large pot in the kitchen she begins talking to her mother about life and love; living under one roof they never had an opportunity to talk about these issues before ? A real estate sale document notarized during the weekend has not been recorded, this was supposed to be done Monday; it is still the weekend, yet the notary wants money for annulment and the hero is willing to pay a large sum. The hero is quite successful financially, yet he does not keep any money in the bank ? Who and for what reason moved the body of the grandfather of the bride from the bathroom to inside of a cello box ? How could this have happened with the band playing in the front of that cello box ? A crook sells to the hero a stolen car and instead of cash wants a deed to a piece of real estate near the residence of the hero ? One could continue this list of nonsenses much longer ...