Multisensual Representations of Isolation versus Intimacy Crisis in Polish Films about Youth: Love Tasting, All These Sleepless Nights and Sweat

The aim of the paper is to analyse three Polish films in terms of sensuous theory and the theory ‎of affects. We focused particularly on fragments of works portraying characters’ intense ‎emotional states. We were curious how the emotions and affects are presented in the plot and ‎form—and how the viewers can feel them. We have chosen three films by young Polish ‎directors about young people: Love Tasting (2020), All These Sleepless Nights (2016) and Sweat ‎‎(2020). All three works tell stories of failed relationships and rejection, but also portray young ‎people’s identity building. The films show their characters in vulnerable ‎positions, when they are prone to crisis. We wondered how the sensuous theory can combine the ‎analysed categories.‎