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You Have No Idea How Much I Love You review – intense family therapy

A mother and daughter take their problems to a psychiatrist in this intimate Polish documentary
  
  

Ewa in You Have No Idea How Much I Love You.
Ewa in You Have No Idea How Much I Love You. Photograph: ICA

Polish director Pawel Łoziński’s extraordinarily intimate documentary stages a series of therapy sessions with Polish mother, Ewa, her twentysomething daughter Hania, and psychiatrist Bogdan de Barbaro. “I’d like to be able to talk to my mum properly,” declares Hania at the start of the film. These controlled conversations are captured in claustrophobic close-up, the camera’s cramped quarters amplifying the already intense emotions in the room. A simple enough set-up, except for a key piece of information revealed at the end that complicates the 70-odd minutes that precede. This twist ruptures expectations about the documentary genre – making Łoziński’s project more, not less interesting. Authenticity may have been breached, but the film’s revelations still feel earned, and achingly truthful.

 

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