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director Lech Kowalski
country France/USA
year 2005
duration 22 minutes
media Beta SP PAL
color Color
language OF
producer Odile Allard
production Extinkt Films
cinematography Lech Kowalski, Mark Brady
sound Ramses
editor Lech Kowalski
distribution
"Extinkt Films
www.extinkt.com
kingoutlaw@noos.fr"

"Puritans move on. Sex and loneliness in the life of a married man the latest borderline short film by Lech Kowalski.
As usual Kowalski goes straight to the point. A moment of reality in three acts, not at all just a mere provocation, quite the opposite. Without a care Diary of a Married Man throws taboos in our face and is intentionally shocking. But behind the deliberate desire to shake accepted standards of behaviour, another reality takes shape; the reality of America where the individual is overpowered by loneliness, boredom and work. Where pleasures are nothing but fantasies. The last scene wavers between funny and despair borderline for sure, but so invigorating.
Television buyers will not be interested in this film?
? Never the less it has become more and more difficult to point the camera and shoot. Subject matter is being extinguished as quickly and wantonly as the animals in the world?s jungles. Soon only strange creature will be left roaming the planet. A kind of man and woman ? without soul and mystery other than the vestige of a strange memory called the ?exotic past?. Their existence will be as banal as the two main characters in this film. What was sensual and pleasurable and mysterious is being packaged and sold ? for profit for a few and at such a great loss for so many. This story was shot in a small city in America, on a street that stretches from one end of the continent to the other. The two main characters represent ?us?. The situation they find themselves in represents our moment in history. The conclusion represents hell."
