Ewa Wikiel

Krzyk: Losing Control, is a trippy, tense feature about one woman’s devolution from sanity triggered by layered traumatic experiences. The word Krzyk means scream in Polish, and is an apt name for a film that is often visceral for the viewer, and feels at once like a languid dreamscape and a tightly coiled spring about to explode. The film is unusual in that it doesn’t make the female protagonist particularly sympathetic. This is welcome in a world where women dealing with child loss are so often treated with kid gloves, or presented as martyrs and saints.