Synopsis
Fleeing from despair after losing those dearest to him, the hero hides in a safe land of memories, where time stands still and all those dear to him are alive.
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Cast
- Krystyna JandaJanek's Mother (voice)
- Andrzej ChyraJanek's Father (voice)
- Maja OstaszewskaJanek (voice)
- Małgorzata KożuchowskaFishmonger's Shop Assistant (voice)
- Barbara KrafftównaMariuszek's Old Mother (voice)
- Anna DymnaMariuszek's Young Mother (voice)
- Marek KondratMariuszek's Father (voice)
- Gustaw HoloubekMariuszek's Alter Ego (voice)
- Irena KwiatkowskaOld Woman on the Train (voice)
- Andrzej WajdaOld Man on the Train (voice)
Recommendations
- 80
The Guardian
This is not animation which is there to exalt, or soothe, or celebrate human loveliness: it is animation which takes a fiercely miserable satirical stab at the world and itself, a language which is unreconciled, unaccommodated. - 80
Film Threat
It’s all deeply unsettling, a glorious massacre you can’t look away from. Kill It and Leave This Town dares you to avert its gaze. You may not be able to describe it, but good luck forgetting it. - 75
IndieWire
Kill It and Leave This Town is almost oppressively personal at times. Hideously seductive as it can be, the movie is so isolated inside the contours of Wilczyński’s mind that it’s hard to imagine what audience might exist for it. Then again, what beauty is there in this world that isn’t alive in our heads — if nowhere else — and trying to escape? - 75
Slant Magazine
Mariusz Wilczyński’s animation style strikes an unlikely balance between the childlike and the proficient. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
Although the story is not easy to follow, the anger behind it is so virulent that it sweeps the narrative along on a wave of rage and repulsion. A downer on this scale will not, clearly, be everyone's cup of tea. - 70
Screen Daily
In its most poignant, resonant moments, the film feels both devastatingly personal and affectingly revelatory: a simultaneously forceful and tender piece of existential contemplation that’s intricately tied to Wilczynski’s life but still universal in its themes. But when it meanders, which is perhaps more often than it should, it requires serious commitment from its audience. - 70
Variety
An utterly bizarre, frequently grotesque, occasionally obscene singularity, Polish artist Mariusz Wilczynski’s abrasive animation Kill It and Leave This Town exists so far outside the realm of the expected, the acceptable and the neatly comprehensible that it acts as a striking reminder of just how narrow that realm can be. - 40
The New York Times
The grim film feels excavated from the subconscious: The coarse illustration style, with its frazzled, stray lines, emphasizes the bleakness of the images.
