Synopsis
After fun-loving metalhead Jacek is disfigured in an accident at work, he becomes the first person in Poland to receive a face transplant. This leads to his status as a media spectacle and martyr, all while battling ensuing identity issues as a consequence.
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Cast
- Mateusz KościukiewiczJacek
- Agnieszka PodsiadlikJacek's sister
- Małgorzata GorolDagmara
- Roman GancarczykPriest
- Dariusz ChojnackiJacek's brother
- Robert TalarczykJacek's brother-in-law
- Anna TomaszewskaJacek's mother
- Martyna KrzysztofikJacek's sister-in-law
- Iwona Bielska
- Juliusz Chrząstowski
Recommendations
- 80
The Guardian
Mug is a strange, engaging film – well and potently acted and directed, a drama that puts you inside its extended community with a mix of robust realism and a streak of fantasy comedy. - 80
Screen Daily
As free-wheeling as a Preston Sturges farce, the handsome-looking Mug feels scattershot at times but it does convey the sense of a Poland racing towards hell in a hand cart. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
This study in weathering adversity and adjusting to what life hands you makes some worthy points about human and institutional callousness. - 60
Variety
Szumowska...wants to tackle manifold issues, often unrelated to each other, and her attention feels magpie-ish and unsettled.
