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Pawlikowski Returning Home for ‘Sister of Mercy’

Pawlikowski has been involved with a couple of false starts and is probably struggling to get more money out of a Miramax deal for his pic called Young Stalin. He hasn’t directed a picture since My Summer of Love, but it appears as if his next pic will be a Polish-British co-production which would shoot this coming summer.

Just a couple of weeks ago I was talking about how Danes go back home when things aren’t working out on the U.S./U.K. side of the business – I guess that’s sort of the predicament that Pawel Pawlikowski has found himself in. Pawlikowski has been involved with a couple of false starts and is probably struggling to get more money out of a Miramax deal for his pic called Young Stalin. He hasn’t directed a picture since My Summer of Love, but it appears as if his next pic will be a Polish-British co-production which would shoot this coming summer.

Scripted by Cezary Harasimowicz and Pawlikowski, Sister of Mercy this is about the moral dilemma of a young nun sought after by a Secret Service agent for co-operation under the communist regime in 1968 Poland. He reveals her Jewish descent and makes her question her own identity, while their relationship gets more complicated.

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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).

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