The Peasants (2023)

The Polish film Chlopi, or The Peasants (2023), is a boldly stylistic film that shows off a new version of a classic animation technique known as rotoscoping, this one utilizing roughly 80,000 individual paintings! Kamila Urzędowska stars as Jagna, the proverbial black sheep of a remote Polish village steeped in ritual, superstition, and routine toward the end of the 19th century. All Jagna wants is to break the cycle of obedience that has destroyed the beautiful inner souls of people she loves, but that sort of rebellious spirit is bound to get her in trouble... and this is one brand of trouble one doesn't want to be on the receiving end of, if you catch our drift!

Kamila Urzędowska really throws herself into the role, putting herself through the wringer in the name of making her character's plight more real and visceral. She also bares all—with a gorgeously animated filter over it—though to explain the context of the scene is a major spoiler. If you don't care about spoilers, watch the scenes and the context will be pretty obvious! But Kamila is also pretty obviously one seriously stacked screen siren!