director Mariusz Palej
“Behind The Blue Door” (original title: ‘Za niebieskimi drzwiami') a record-breaker at the box office! It's the most successful Polish movie for young viewers co-financed by the Polish Film Institute. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt6233882/?ref_=nv_sr_1
“Finally the young viewer is taken seriously”
Łukasz Maciejewski – film critic
“Behind The Blue Door’ is a display of Mariusz Palej's visual imagination. A display which must have required a lot of struggle from the director, searching for ways to good-naturedly deceive the viewer..."
Maciej Stasierski – AreYouWatchingClosely http://areyouwatchingclosely.pl/za-niebieskimi-drzwiami-a-jednak-sie-da/
“Mariusz Palej's Behind The Blue Door is unique for two reasons. Firstly, somebody finally took it upon himself to elevate the Polish family movie genre to the modern standards of the global market. Secondly, this achievement of the Polish cinema is no sugar-coated fairy tale about holiday adventures, but very surreal fantasy, combining a fairy tale with horror".
Szymon Radzewicz – sPlay Cyfrowy Styl Życia
http://splay.pl/2016/11/07/za-niebieskimi-drzwiami-recenzja/
“I'm trying to recall a film for children and young people, which moved me and impressed me as much as Behind The Blue Door. And... it takes me all the way back to the eighties, when as a little girl with flushed cheeks, but also a pillow ready to cover my eyes, I watched 'E.T.' and the “Never Ending Story” (...) The world behind a blue door enchants with its brilliance, but hides a dark secret. While uncovering it Łukasz brings that danger into the real world. And this is where the lines between the fairy tale and reality start to blur, while the action gains momentum”.
Ewa Świerzewska - Qlturka
http://qlturka.pl/2016/11/16/za-niebieskimi-drzwiami-recenzja-filmu/
“Behind The Blue Door: a visually daring horror for young viewers. The first movie of this kind in Poland”. Paweł Felis - Gazeta Wyborcza http://wyborcza.pl/7,75248,20934895,za-niebieskimi-drzwiami-brawurowy-wizualnie-horror-dla-mlodych.html
“An absolutely spectacular fantasy picture, full of irresistible magic (...) Behind The Blue Door is a daring Polish undertaking showing that we are capable of making a decent fantasy cinema with a quite clever plot and visually pleasing special effects”.
Bartosz Kęprowski – MOVIES ROOM http://moviesroom.pl/recenzje/recenzje-premier/8600-za-niebieskimi-drzwiami-recenzja-polskiego-filmu-fantasy
“The film directed by Mariusz Palej, on the one hand is a faithful adaptation of the novel, and on the other its creators conjured up an original, since non-existent world, not only from the Szczygielski's descriptions but also from their own artistic sensitivity and imagination. In the big screen version of Behind The Blue Door – like in any film adaptation – there are bigger and smaller shortcuts, changes to the plot and the characterisation of the heroes, but I wouldn't say that the film is worse than the book. The book is indeed very good (...), and the film is not its one-to-one reflection. In some respects it doesn't rival the original, while in others it definitely makes up for it or even surpasses the book”.
Karolina Nos-Cybelius – film|ORG|PL
http://film.org.pl/r/ksiazka-a-film-3-za-niebieskimi-drzwiami-recenzja-premierowa-91068/
“Szczygielski and Palej treat the children seriously”.
Barbara Hollender – rp.pl Film
http://www.rp.pl/Film/161109800-Za-niebieskimi-drzwiami-Szokujaca-bajka-dla-dzieci.html#ap-1
“Director Mariusz Palej freely draws from pop culture tropes from Hitchcock's ‘The Birds’ to one of the best American series in recent memory – ‘Stranger Things’. And rightly so, because it facilitates communica_on with the young viewers, while at the same _me providing entertainment for their parents, who will have to answer several important ques_ons once they leave the movie theatre”.
Magda Huzarska Szumiec - Gazeta Krakowska
“Behind The Blue Door wins the viewers over not only through its visual panache, but mostly with the way it constructs its main hero. He isn't one of the kids popula_ng the family genre, but a representa_ve of young Poles AD 2016”.
Artur Zaborski, criGc - Dziennik Polski hFp://www.dziennikpolski24.pl/aktualnosci/a/w-polsce-niestety-nie-wierzymy-w-potencjal-filmow-familijnych-i-kina- dla-
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