But it isnt a joke; it is the most serious thing in his life.
Poland will soon find its conservative heart.
An occasional magazine article about newly recognized gender dysphoria may pop up.
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The law is not on Andrzejs side.
At first, it seems that nobody is on his side.
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Understandably: this is not a subject that can be abandoned to the imagination.
Datelines ensure we know exactly where we are.
It is a human story, but with implied footnotes.
It is also a story that plays awkwardly on the screen.
Mateusz Wieclawek, a vital actor who brings an inalienable male glamour with him, plays young Andrzej.
All this has the straightforward narrative quality of a newsreel.
As a rigger, young Andrzej is noted approvingly by his boss as able to climb anything in seconds.
Perhaps he thinks about it.
Hajewska-Kryzysztofik is a deeply sympathetic presence, but the wrong physical fit for some of the vignettes gathered here.
I just want an ordinary life, Aniela tells Isabela in the first flush of crisis.
In the end, through her own determination, she achieves something much better than that.
