Yesterday

In the sixties, in a provincial town, four high school students are coming up to graduation. But what is on their minds is not school: it is the Beatles. The four listen to the band’s songs, try to play them and put themselves in their place. The gap widens between the rules of the town and the life the young people want. The film keeps that gap somewhere between comedy and sadness. Music is both the subject of the account and what carries it. The eighty seven minutes are spread across a single school year. Piotr Siwkiewicz and Anna Kaźmierczak take the leads. Radosław Piwowarski’s Polish film was completed in 1985.