In a dramatic atmosphere, the movie follows Michael who is a young man works in Berlin as a lawyer. He has stayed there for many years but he can't forget his Polish accent and roots. Then, he remembers all his past when that old man knock on his door saying that he is his father. They spend together a weekend fulled of empathy, rejection and mistrust.
... its intended coldness is a deterrent. [Full review in Spanish]
NOW Toronto
September 11, 2017
Antoniak's compositions are as studied and elegant as her protagonist, but the dialogue is a little too on the nose for a film that otherwise is suffused with mystery and ambiguity.
Antoniak's spare script doesn't probe too deeply into his ruptured psyche, meaning much of "Beyond Words" falls in a curious tonal middle ground between earnest and ersatz.