Shot with cinematic flair, Michał Marczak’s Polish-language 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. In the opening scene, Daniel finds what he’s looking for: a corpse washed up on the riverbank. Fortunately, it’s not his son. Closure eludes him still. Read More
