''11 Minutes'' () is a 2015 thriller film written and directed by
Jerzy Skolimowski
Jerzy Skolimowski (, born 5 May 1938) is a Polish film director, screenwriter, dramatist and actor. A graduate of the prestigious National Film School in Łódź, Skolimowski has directed more than twenty films since his 1960 début ''Oko wykol' ...
. It stars
Richard Dormer
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, Paulina Chapko, Wojciech Mecwaldowski,
Andrzej Chyra,
Dawid Ogrodnik
Dawid Ogrodnik (born 28 May 1986, Wągrowiec) is a Polish actor. He has appeared in more than ten films since 2010.
Filmography
References
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1986 births
Living people
Polish film actors
Polish male film actors
Po ...
,
Agata Buzek, Piotr Glowacki,
Mateusz Kościukiewicz
Mateusz Kościukiewicz (; born 1 May 1986 in Nowy Tomyśl) is a Polish film actor.
Life and career
He grew up in Nowy Tomyśl, where he attended the General and Post-Secondary Schools. He studied at the Kraków State Higher Theater School.
In 20 ...
,
Ifi Ude
Diana Ifeoma Ude (born 1986 in Enugu
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,
Jan Nowicki
Jan Nowicki (5 November 1939 – 7 December 2022) was a Polish actor. Biography
He appeared in 90 films and television episodes since 1967.
Nowicki died on 7 December 2022, at the age of 83.Warsaw
Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is officia ...
, it tells the story of multiple people's lives over the course of eleven minutes in a single day. The film had its world premiere in the Competition section at the
72nd Venice International Film Festival
The 72nd annual Venice International Film Festival took place from 2 to 12 September 2015. Alfonso Cuarón served as the President of the Jury for the main competition. A restored version of Federico Fellini's film '' Amarcord'' was shown at the ...
on 9 September 2015.
It was selected as the
Polish entry for the
Best Foreign Language Oscar at the
88th Academy Awards
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, but it was not nominated.
Plot
A contemporary big city and a group of its inhabitants, whose lives are intertwined with each other. The same 11 minutes from the lives of different characters presented in parallel stories: an obsessively jealous husband, his wife-actress, a sneaky Hollywood director, a drug courier, a hot dog vendor with an obscure past, a girl with a beloved dog, a frustrated student on a risky mission, a mountaineer cleaning hotel windows, an ambulance crew, a group of nuns and an old painter. Before the last second of the eleventh minute, their fate is linked by an event that will definitely affect their lives.
Cast
Production
Jerzy Skolimowski
Jerzy Skolimowski (, born 5 May 1938) is a Polish film director, screenwriter, dramatist and actor. A graduate of the prestigious National Film School in Łódź, Skolimowski has directed more than twenty films since his 1960 début ''Oko wykol' ...
described the film as "an answer to the Hollywood action movies." The film was primarily shot in
Warsaw
Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is officia ...
.
Additional filming took place in
Dublin
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, as well as the
Alvernia Studios
Alvernia Studios is a film studio located in Alwernia Municipality, Poland, west of the Kraków Airport. The studio, with additional offices in Mumbai and Warsaw, produces international features for theatrical release, video games, music projec ...
near
Cracow.
Release
The film had its world premiere in the Competition section at the
72nd Venice International Film Festival
The 72nd annual Venice International Film Festival took place from 2 to 12 September 2015. Alfonso Cuarón served as the President of the Jury for the main competition. A restored version of Federico Fellini's film '' Amarcord'' was shown at the ...
on 9 September 2015.
It was also screened at the
Toronto International Film Festival
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, the
BFI London Film Festival
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, the
Gdynia Film Festival
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It has taken place every year sinc ...
, the
Geneva International Film Festival
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, the
Lisbon & Estoril Film Festival
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, the
Cork Film Festival
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, the
Camerimage
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, and the
Trieste Film Festival
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References
External linksOffi ...
. It was released in Poland on 23 October 2015.
Reception
Critical reception
On review aggregator website
Rotten Tomatoes
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, the film has an approval rating of 67% based on 15 reviews, and a weighted average rating of 5.6/10. On
Metacritic
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, the film has a score 51 out of 100, based on 12 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".
Chuck Bowen of ''
Slant Magazine
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'' gave the film 3 out of 4 stars, writing, "The directorial ingenuity of ''11 Minutes'' is so evident and flamboyant that it's tempting to overlook the accomplishments of Skolimowski’s script, which abounds in shorthand and overheated implication."
He added, "The film's final Rube Goldberg-ian flourish refutes the banal humanity of many multiple-character studies, convincingly insisting that only death shall bring us together, unifying our vastly differing gulfs of emotional experience."
David Rooney of ''
The Hollywood Reporter
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'' described the film as "an empty feat of technical virtuosity driven by a bleakly obvious vision of the murky morality of the post-9/11 world."
Accolades
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References
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2015 films
2015 thriller films
Irish thriller films
2010s Polish-language films
2010s English-language films
English-language Polish films
English-language Irish films
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Polish multilingual films
Hyperlink films
Nonlinear narrative films
Films directed by Jerzy Skolimowski
Films shot in Warsaw
Films shot in the Republic of Ireland
Films with screenplays by Jerzy Skolimowski
2015 multilingual films