Closure

Michał Marczak’s documentary CLOSURE is a rattling search and rescue: both for an actual missing kid and the soul of the father searching. Following the disappearance of his teenage son Chris, Daniel diligently scours the Vistula River, hoping to either recover his son’s corpse or uncover some hint that he might still be alive. He and his friends spend their free time checking every creek and crag of the Vistula, mucking out the eddies, breaking apart wash-ups, and scouring its embankments for a decomposing body. Shot with a mix of sweeping overhead drone shots and tight face-closeups that capture the rivers of emotion brewing across each face, CLOSURE feels like a movie in the best sense. (Matt Oakes, silverscreenriot.com)