Forgotten Love

Directed by Michal Gazda
Produced by Netflix
Released Sept. 27, 2023

Watch Time: 2 hrs. 20 min.

Forgotten Love is Neflix’s adaptation of a 1992 classic Polish melodrama – the third adaptation of the Polish novel Znachor (which translates as “The Quack”).

I was suspicious of the title. It sounded like it could be a romance. But its conciseness and its vagueness gave me hope for something more.

And it delivered…

What I Liked About It 

This is a very good movie. I found it easy to watch, easy to enjoy, and it left me feeling satisfied. I think that was because it was (1) wonderfully imagined, (2) well built, (3) carefully managed, and (4) meticulously acted.

Why I Can’t Call It a “Great” Movie 

For all its excellence, including the script, the acting, the direction, and the cinematography, Forgotten Love is essentially a fantasy. A great film in my book is one that has great depth in terms of plumbing human nature and great detail in showing with exactness how humans behave (or once behaved) in particular times and situations.

Fantasy fiction has different objectives. It is not about the truth of who we truly are/were. It is about who and how we would like to be in imagined times and situations.

You can watch the trailer here.