During the introduction of the second Sundance screening of his new film “Closure,” director Michał Marczak, in reaction to an audience question at the film’s premiere, wanted to make sure the audience understood the film they were about to watch was a documentary. “None of the scenes were staged.”
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.”
“Closure,” the story of a father’s search for his missing son, is a more straightforward documentary subject and shoot than Marczak’s previous film,…
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