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Giuseppe Sedia

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Biography:

I am French-born Italian journalist living and working in Poland. I am reporter for the Italian daily Il Manifesto and run the website and film archive Kino Mania which is entirely devoted to Polish cinema. As a member of the International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI), I have served in the jury of several international film festivals.

Reviews

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Każdy ma swoje lato (2020) 3/5 EDIT “[Jurkiewicz] does not shy away from sensitively portraying the town’s more deteriorated facets. Everyone Has a Summer stands as one of the most compelling portrayals of provincial Poland to grace the big screen in recent years.” – Kino Mania Jan 2, 2026 Full Review Minghun (2024) 4/5 EDIT “[The movie] draws a stark contrast between Western portrayals of grief and Eastern traditions [...] Matuszyński brings a piece of China to the Baltic Sea in the film’s poetic finale, which evokes both destruction and transcendence. ” – Kino Mania Dec 19, 2025 Full Review Life for Beginners (2025) 3/5 EDIT “Podolski brings together in Life for Beginners a vibrant ensemble of relatively unknown young and senior actors in a sharply written film, produced on a shoestring budget with, both literally and metaphorically, a few drops of fake blood” – Kino Mania Nov 15, 2025 Full Review Where Do We Begin (2024) 3/5 EDIT “[The film] is affecting and manages to tug at the viewers’ heartstrings without resorting to tear-jerking (...) regrettable that its Polish title which translates into English as “There Will Be No Other End” was not retained for the international release” – Kino Mania Oct 1, 2025 Full Review Loss of Balance (2024) 3/5 EDIT “(...) a cost-affordable film set in the milieu of a fictitious drama school in Warsaw. Bojanowski’s film is also a coming of age, and on stage, story about young actors who will have to struggle to stay active in this sector after becoming professional. ” – Kino Mania Sep 23, 2025 Full Review Anxiety (2023) 3/5 EDIT “The topic of assisted suicide [...] is a novelty in Polish cinema. Fabicki tackled it tactfully and in a restrained manner. The stay at the clinic never gets melodramatic and the sisters’ faces are blurred after Małgorzata drinks the lethal dose.” – Kino Mania Jan 31, 2025 Full Review Wrooklyn Zoo (2024) 3/5 EDIT “As a filmic tale of cultural intolerance, Wrooklyn Zoo could easily be adapted for the stage. And yet, it shines as a breakneck valentine to Wrocław brimmed with outdoor shots framing many of the city’s landmarks” – Kino Mania Jan 31, 2025 Full Review The Polish Dancer (1917) 3/5 EDIT “The Polish Dancer is the only film with Negri to date from the “Polish period” that has been preserved in its entirety. Visually speaking [and] does not allow point-blank observation of Negri as a diamond in the rough.” – Kino Mania Jan 31, 2025 Full Review It Came from the Water (2022) 3/5 EDIT “It Came from the Water has potentially everything to become a nonchalant cinematic manifesto for the Generation Z high school students that had to spend the best days of their youth in self-isolation.” – Kino Mania Jan 31, 2025 Full Review Pastoral Hide and Seek (1974) 4/5 EDIT “Terayama never adopted a extremist, Godard-esque autobiographical stance or used the cinema to make moral statements about the present [The film] is a visually eclectic cri de coeur in response to passing of time and its impact on memories.” – Film International Jan 27, 2025 Full Review Bullet Ballet (1998) 3/5 EDIT “Described by the director as a cinematic reflection on his feelings of becoming a middle-aged man, Bullet Ballet perfectly displays Tsukamoto’s progression into artistic maturity before he reluctantly adopted digital cinema.” – Film International Jan 27, 2025 Full Review Gate of Hell (1953) 93% 4/5 EDIT “On one hand, the reception of Gate of Hell was, indeed, the result of the short-term japonisme that affected world cinema stakeholders. On the other hand, it was a sumptuous reply to the angst and intricate storytelling as admired in Rashomon (1950) ” – Film International Jan 27, 2025 Full Review Justice (2024) 3/5 EDIT “As a cinematic ode to the Nineties in Poland, this well-packed thriller must be certainly appealing also to the streaming generations that did not live those days. It would hold its own even in a movie theatre.” – Kino Mania Jan 21, 2025 Full Review Under the Volcano (2024) 4/5 EDIT “Just like Ruben Östlund’s films, Kocur’s drama is infused with a lull-before-the-storm feeling that pervades the interaction between the characters, both before and after the news of the military attack” – Kino Mania Jan 21, 2025 Full Review Next to Nothing (2023) 4/5 EDIT “The movie holds together very well thanks to Paczesny’s stupendous performance as Jarek, an upstanding and surly, almost Eastwood-esque, “rural detective” who is determined to find the truth at any cost. ” – Kino Mania Jan 21, 2025 Full Review Woman Of (2023) 100% 3/5 EDIT “Szumowska’s and Englert’s film deals with transitions in the broad sense including but not limited to the protagonist’s gender change struggles [They] deserve kudos for having assembled an abundant cast to portray a few round characters at different ages” – Kino Mania Jan 21, 2025 Full Review Scarborn (2023) 4/5 EDIT “Maślona’s engrossing and Tarantino-esque tale of revenge and emancipation features more slashes than gunshot The candle-lit card game sequence, in which the main characters gamble away their weapons, is worth alone the price of admission” – Kino Mania Jan 21, 2025 Full Review The Palace (2023) 10% 1/5 EDIT “As a satire of the shallow society and vulgarians sheltered behind a luxury resort, Polański’s moving picture lacks bite and gets only a few laughs despite the sudden appearance of a penguin in the hotel.” – Kino Mania Jan 21, 2025 Full Review Imago (2023) 4/5 EDIT “Enriched with Tomasz Naumiuk’s atmospheric cinematography, Imago is a vodka-fueled trainspotting-esque and hard-hitting cinematic ode to alternative culture in Poland when the toppling of Communism was just around the corner” – Kino Mania Jan 21, 2025 Full Review The Peasants (2023) 61% 3/5 EDIT “The splending layer of animated oil painting gives luster to this soap opera-esque animated feature film. The Peasants resembles a big turbo-slavic cinematic marshmallow that could turn up the nose of Reymont specialists and ethnographers.” – Kino Mania Jan 21, 2025 Full Review Doppelganger. The Double (2023) 3/5 EDIT “As a spy movie Doppelgänger. The Double displays a remarkable historical accuracy [The film] is a topflight euro spy thriller that deserves to be in the same tier of Henckel von Donnersmarck’s The Lives of Others (2006).” – Kino Mania Jan 21, 2025 Full Review Green Border (2023) 94% 5/5 EDIT “Holland manages at the same time to pay tribute to the recent efforts of Polish population, border guards included, aimed at helping the Ukrainians since February 2022, as well as to denounce Poland’s and EU’s double standards for refugees” – Kino Mania Jan 21, 2025 Full Review Hidden Network (2023) 2/5 EDIT “Szamałek’s story is indeed full of cutting remarks about tabloid journalism for its intrusiveness and lack of ethics Koleśnik’s tremendous performance adds zest to Adamski’s Polish take on Nordic noir film and thus preventing it from sinking into oblivion” – Kino Mania Jan 21, 2025 Full Review Hospital of the Transfiguration (1979) 3/5 EDIT “Partially filmed on the grounds of Tworkowski psychiatric near Warsaw, Hospital of the Transfiguration is a sombre but convincing piece of cinema in which there is no room for Schindler-like WWII rescuers to keep the tragedy at bay.” – Kino Mania Jan 21, 2025 Full Review The Balcony Movie (2021) 4/5 EDIT “[Łoziński Jr.] never seems to look down on his subjects despite being physically above them. No matter what is discussed, the films functions magnificently as a cordial, devoid of embellishments, open air confessional, that entertains the viewer” – Kino Mania Jan 21, 2025 Full Review
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