Vaguely inspired by Andrzej Wajda's same-named 1973 adaptation of Stanislaw Wyspianski's turn-of-the-century play, this is a frantic, fluid-flushed farce, in which father of the bride Marian Dziedziel pays an increasingly severe price for Tamara Arciuch's less-than-happy day.
It's difficult to know whether funding the event through a series of dodgy deals or getting Arciuch's dumped boyfriend, Maciej Stuhr, to video proceedings is the more disastrous decision, as the camera picks up each new humiliation with a persistence that's as relentlessly cruel as it's bleakly hilarious.
Ripping into the hypocrisies and aspirations of post-Communist society, debuting director Wojciech Smarzowski denounces everything from the law and the church to the mafia and the European Union, as the guests wallow in a celebratory cesspool of blood, vomit, toilet overflow and cheap Slovakian vodka.