"It's a clarification that turned out to be necessary, as the woman exiting the theater in front of me said to her friend, "Thank God he said something, I would've sworn that opening was the start of a fiction film." This is, in part, by design. Marczak likes to quote his cinematic hero, and fellow Pole, the late Krzysztof Kieślowski, "fiction films should look like documentaries, and documentaries should look like fiction films.""
"having written a script set on the Vistula River, which they were rafting down on a research trip, when they met Daniel. "One night, we were trying to dock to one of the islands. Our flashlights went out, and it got a little bit dangerous," said Marczak. "The banks were really high, and a man, Daniel, appeared from out of nowhere with this flashlight and guided us to safety.""
Michał Marczak's Closure is a documentary chronicling a father's search for his missing teenage son. Marczak insisted that none of the film's scenes were staged, emphasizing its nonfiction status. The film intentionally blurs documentary and fiction aesthetics, reflecting Kieślowski's maxim that fiction should look like documentary and vice versa. Marczak and producer Karolina Marczak were researching a scripted river-set project when they encountered Daniel, a late-40s man who guided them to safety and invited them to his campfire. Daniel revealed that he was on the Vistula River searching for his son's body, and his story became the basis for the documentary.
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