Floating Skyscrapers

Floating Skyscrapers Article Talk Read Edit View history Appearance hide Text Small Standard Large Width Standard Wide Color Automatic Light Dark From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Sorry to interrupt, but our fundraiser won't last long. This Saturday, we ask you to join the 2% of readers who give. If everyone reading this right now gave just €2,75, we'd hit our goal quickly. €2,75 is all we ask. Give €2,75 Maybe later 24 October: Wikipedia still can't be sold We're sorry we've made several attempts to reach you lately, but it's Saturday, 24 October, and we still need some help. If everyone reading this gave €2,75 today, we'd hit our goal in a few hours. Most readers don't donate; less than 2% do. Wikipedia is run by a nonprofit, not by a billionaire. So if Wikipedia has given you €2,75 worth of knowledge, please give. Any contribution helps, whether it's €2,75 or €25. Give €2,75 Give a different amount Proud host of Wikipedia and other free knowledge projects Maybe later I already donated Close Floating Skyscrapers Polish theatrical release poster Directed by Tomasz Wasilewski Written by Tomasz Wasilewski Produced by Roman Jarosz Izabela Igel Łukasz Targosz (co-producer) Szymon Lenkowski (co-producer) Starring Mateusz Banasiuk Marta Nieradkiewicz Bartosz Gelner Katarzyna Herman Izabela Kuna Mirosław Zbrojewicz Olga Frycz Cinematography Kuba Kijowski Edited by Aleksandra Gowin Music by Baasch Production companies Alter Ego Pictures Polish Film Institute Distributed by Film Point Group (Poland) Galapagos Films (Poland, home video) Matchbox Films (United Kingdom) Films Boutique (worldwide) Release dates 18 April 2013 (Tribeca) 22 November 2013 (Poland) 6 December 2013 (United Kingdom) Running time 93 minutes Country Poland Language Polish Box office $137,832 (Poland)[1] Floating Skyscrapers (Polish: Płynące wieżowce) is a 2013 Polish drama film written and directed by Tomasz Wasilewski, and starring Mateusz Banasiuk, Marta Nieradkiewicz, Bartosz Gelner and Katarzyna Herman. It follows the story of Kuba, an aspiring professional swimmer who falls in love with another man to the disapproval of his mother and to the surprise of his girlfriend, who tries to hold on to him and their relationship. Premiering at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival in New York City, the film is the first Polish production that primarily deals with the topic of same-sex relationships,[2] and is often paired together with In the Name Of by Małgorzata Szumowska—which covers the same themes in a different manner—as films that attempt to challenge existing local social and cultural norms on homosexuality.[3][4] Set in Warsaw, the film is noted for using the urban landscape and its largely clean, straight aesthetic as a means of conveying the existence of these strict pre-existing social conventions, which the film's storyline attempts to deviate from.[5][6] Reactions to the film by both critics and the general public were mixed. While some have praised the bravery of the film for covering a topic generally considered by Polish society to be taboo, as well as for its cinematography and soundtrack, others have criticized the film's flat storyline and character development, as well as its predictable, conventional, tragic end. Plot This article's plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed. Please help improve it by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise. (September 2021) (Learn how and when to remove this message) Kuba (Mateusz Banasiuk) has been training as a swimmer for fifteen years, with training taking up most of his day. One evening after training, his girlfriend, Sylwia (Marta Nieradkiewicz), picks him up and brings him to an art exhibition, grudgingly agreeing to go and showing obvious disinterest. Kuba later retreats outside and smokes a joint, where he meets Michał (Bartosz Gelner), and the two strike up a conversation to Sylwia's delight. She later joins the two of them with a few other attendees at the basement, where Kuba asks her to take him home. The next morning, Kuba's mother, Ewa (Katarzyna Herman), urges him to have Sylwia move out of the apartment, which she owns. The relationship between the two women is tense, as demonstrated by her exasperation at Sylwia taking a long time in the shower. He protests, noting that she helps in paying the rent and that he wants her to stay with him. Later, Kuba trains at the gym, where, unbeknownst to those closest to him, he ogles at the other men training, and after taking a shower, receives oral sex from another male cruiser inside a bathroom cubicle, which is also alluded to in the first scene of the film, where moans can be heard from the same place.[5] Although he enjoys the experience, he resists the other man's attempt at kissing him and storms out of the cubicle, meeting Sylwia later at the restaurant where she works.