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KILL ME IF YOU DARE

Poland, 2025, 95 minutes, Colour.

Weronika Ksiazkiewicz, Mateusz Banasiuk.

Directed by Filip Zylber.

This is a slight, different variation on romantic comedy. Polish style.

The focus is on a couple, engaged, married, five years, now an edge to their marriage, she wanting to start a cafe, he involved in his business work.

But, then they win 1 million with a scratch ticket. They are overjoyed – but, indication of the unsteady relationship, each reveals the news to a close friend. Then, the beginning of suspicions that one might want to kill the other, fostered by the erratic friends, some potential jealousy of the husband and his co-worker, and then a weekend at a resort, lavish, and the two friends coming independently, encountering each other and setting up a relationship.

Some comedy then in the suspicions, the various situations suggesting murderous intentions and action, then a change in spirit, the rediscovering each other and a happy ending – except, spoiler alert, the neighbour who created safes for all the people in the street, has absconded with the million hidden in the safe!

1. The title and the theme? Variation on romantic comedy? Money and violence?
2. The Polish settings, the city, apartments, workplaces, the holiday resort, the singing countryside? The range of songs, especially American?
3. The introduction to Piotr, in the car, late, Natalia the railway station, the proposal, acceptance, the life together, the five years passing? Ups and downs?
4. Natalia, hopes to open the cafe, friendship with Agata, Piotr, his work, the relationship with Dagmara, memories of the past, schooldays? Hopes and ambitions?
5. The fair, the scratchy ticket seller, her persuasion, buying the ticket, awakening the night, the discovery of winning 1 million? Secrecy, yet Piotr telling Lukasz, Natalia confiding in Agata? The different plans, Natalia shopping, the deposit on the cafe? Piotr and the business, life insurance, the company and the resort, the ticket for the weekend away?
6. The building up of suspicions, temptations for killing, the serious and comic coincidences, the electric socket, the shock, the bath mats slipping, growing edginess?
7. The characters of Agata, Lucasz, the reaction to going to the resort, following, out of sight, the encounter with each other, the drinks, the sexual relationship, the advice and the plans, the sabotage, gradual revelation of each task? Then collaborating eagerly?
8. Going to the resort, suspicions, walking up the hill, the room, Krystian and the two, the mountain climbing and the fall, the meals, almonds instead of garlic, getting Natalia drunk to sit on the floor…?
9. The reconciliation, finding the hut, booking it, the final wariness, Natalia packing and leaving, lying in front of Dagmar’s car, the resolution? Piotr, with Krystian, the skydiving, the achievement? The two reconciled?
10. Bogdan, installing safes in the neighbourhood, putting the million in the safe, returning, all stolen? Natalia pregnant, the visit to the cafe with Agata hosting and Lucas doing all the work?