Into the Wind

Movie review by Barbara Shulgasser-Parker, Common Sense Media
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age 14+

Run-of-the-mill romance; language, drugs, sex.

NR 2022 107 minutes
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The parents' guide to what's in this movie.

What Parents Need to Know

Parents need to know that Into the Wind, a 2022 Polish romance, is a gentle story about a rich, sad girl who falls for a handsome windsurfing instructor at the luxury resort where she and her family are vacationing. They have sex on the beach, the film showing her breasts and their bodies from the back. Adults and older teens smoke marijuana and drink alcohol. Someone's mom died years back, and a windsurfer slams himself into a building, but no harm done. Infrequent language includes "f--k," "s--t," and "ass." In Polish with English subtitles.

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What's the Story?

Ania (Sonia Mieteilica) has been through a lot by the time we meet her in INTO THE WIND. Around 18, she's reluctantly preparing to leave Poland to attend medical school in London. She seems subdued and antisocial on vacation with her overprotective doctor father Andrzej (Marcin Perchuc) and stepmother Patrycja (Agnieszka Zulewska). Mom died five years back, and Ania had been in and out of debilitating depression. Everyone now is weary of tiptoeing around her. Her controlling but loving dad has also persuaded her to give up music and go to med school. She's ready to break out and fall in love with the tousled Michal (Jakub Sasak), a charismatic windsurfing instructor at their luxury resort. The two make love on the beach, and Dad eventually is happy that Ania's in love. But will she throw out a medical career for a vagabond windsurfer?

Is It Any Good?

This story of young love has been told a thousand times before, better and more skillfully, but Into the Wind isn't unpleasant. It's a bit long, and its quiet progress can be downright boring at times, to the degree that if you're also working on a crossword puzzle, leafing through a novel, or doing homework and occasionally look up at the movie, chances are you won't have missed anything. Even when someone is injured, the filmmakers extract no drama from the development. A guy gets hurt and then he's fine, no biggie.

The saving grace is Sonia Mieteilica as Ania, with her dreamy warmth and star quality. If she ever gets a great script, she might break out into greatness herself. In all, this is a movie that never needed to exist, but its existence doesn't hurt anyone.

Talk to Your Kids About ...

  • Families can talk about how movies about the problems of privileged people can be best presented. Do Ania and her troubles seem universal enough to carry a movie? Why, or why not?

  • Why do you think Ania seems detached? Does the movie explain it?

  • What problems do you think a controlling or overprotective parent can cause? How should teens deal with that issue?

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