The Museum is open 11:00 – 19:00
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The Museum is open 11:00 – 19:00
Cinema is closed now
The Dead Mother
Film and a meeting with Michał Oleszczyk
30.08.2026 18:00
We invite you to a screening as part of the Krejzi Mamas series, curated by Michal Oleszczyk. The screening will be followed by a conversation with the series’ curator.
It begins with a dark house into which an intruder has broken in. A little girl is maimed during the attack, which is carried out by Ismael (Karra Elejalde). He also kills the child’s mother, who restores religious statues and paintings. A few years later, Ismael kidnaps Leire (the outstanding Ana Álvarez), now a young woman, and begins to hold her captive in a large house along with his partner Blanca (Silvia Marsó), forming a grotesque family living on the fringes of society…
Juanma Bajo Ulloa is a filmmaker little known in Poland but surrounded by a cult following in Spain. He is often compared to Álex de la Iglesia, Guillermo del Toro, and Brian de Palma—his baroque, technically virtuosic style also seems rooted in the Gothic thrillers of Alfred Hitchcock, led by Rebecca (1940) at the forefront.
The Dead Mother is a daring masterpiece of black humor, grotesque perversion, and operatic grandeur—at once funny, terrifying, and posing profound questions about trauma, crime, and the possibility of redemption for the most horrific sins.
[Michał Oleszczyk]
