March to May (2024) Od marca do mája

Director: Martin Pavol Repka
Stars: Zuzana Fialová, Jozef Abafi, Natalia Fasankova

A family of five lives together in an old village house. While the parents are slowly aging, the children are growing up, and it is clear that they will soon go their own way. This unchanging rhythm of everyday life is disrupted by the unexpected news of the mother’s pregnancy, and the idea of a new sibling gradually affects all members of the household. March to May is an understated, intimate portrait of family togetherness, which is often expressed in the smallest of ways. An unassuming yet highly original story, filmed with the same tenderness and patience with which nature awakens every spring.

Excellent! Through the depicted relationship between parents and the kids, between the kids, and between the parents, I continuously experienced an unknown -yet somehow familiar- cozy feeling throughout the film. It was so warming, so comforting to the degree that I left the cinema heartbroken. The ending of the film pitched into this feeling; when everything turned into a still image (a photograph) under the moonlight. It was very powerful.

The performances are very sincere and unbelievably brilliant. The acting made me feel like watching the behind the scene videos, if any, as I really want to know the experience of the actors with the director; and how the director contributed to this strange sincerity.

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