Poland, second half of the 90s. Two old paupers find a bag full of money in a landfill. They are convinced that their lives will change for the better from now on. Unfortunately, they find out that in a newly wealthy society, the appearance of wealth is more important than theirs wallet's contents. The poor are asked to leave the bank, fancy shops and restaurants. They only manage to rent an apartment in a luxury hotel for the night ...
BEAUTIFUL FUNERALS is a hand-painted double-step-printed film composed of 1) dense blackness variously punctuated by brilliantly colored jewel/flower-like shapes AND 2) interruptive white sections which are fuzzily dotted with blurred whites and criss-crossed by black "brushstrokes" and hard-edge straight black and white lines.
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