Weronika Książkiewicz-Nathaniel
Natalia Rozwadowska
Overview
A winning lottery ticket has grave consequences for a married couple when they start hatching plans to kill each other for the prize money.
Cast
12 people
Reviews
5 min readTill Death Do Us Part—Or At Least Till the Lottery Check Clears
I’ll admit it: I went into Kill Me If You Dare expecting a Polish Mr. & Mrs. Smith with a dash of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?—a marital dark comedy where the stakes are high, the insults sharper, and the murder attempts so absurd they loop back around to romance. The premise is irresistible: a couple wins the lottery, then immediately starts plotting each other’s demise.
What could go wrong? Well, as it turns out, quite a lot.
The film opens with Natalia (Weronika Książkiewicz-Nathaniel) and Piotr (Mateusz Banasiuk) as the kind of couple who finish each other’s sentences—when they’re not finishing each other’s wine glasses. Their chemistry is electric, all playful banter and lingering touches, the kind of love that makes you believe in soulmates. Then the lottery ticket happens.
Suddenly, the cracks in their marriage widen into chasms, and their affection curdles into something far more sinister. What follows is a series of increasingly elaborate (and increasingly ridiculous) attempts to off one another, all while maintaining the facade of a happy marriage.
The problem isn’t the premise—it’s the execution. The film wants to be a farce, but it never quite commits to the bit. The murder attempts are played for laughs, yet the humor lands with all the grace of a lead balloon.
Take, for instance, the rock-climbing scene. Piotr, ever the doting husband, "accidentally" unclips Natalia’s harness mid-climb, sending her plummeting toward the ground. The moment is shot with the kind of slapstick timing you’d expect from a silent film, but the punchline—her survival—feels more like a narrative cop-out than a comedic payoff.
It’s as if the film can’t decide whether it wants to be a dark comedy or a thriller, so it splits the difference and ends up with neither.
Buzz & Rumors
Public reportsNetflix’s Kill Me If You Dare: A Polish Black Comedy with Deadly Stakes
Polish director Filip Zylber’s latest film, Kill Me If You Dare (2024), landed on Netflix in February, bringing a darkly comedic twist to the age-old battle of the sexes. The movie, a remake of the 2019 Turkish film Öldür Beni Sevgilim, follows a married couple whose lottery win spirals into a lethal game of cat and mouse—with both spouses plotting to off the other for the prize money 
. Starring Weronika Książkiewicz-Nathaniel and Mateusz Banasiuk as Natalia and Piotr, the film blends romance, farce, latestnetflix.com argues, and murderous intent in a way that’s equal parts absurd and gripping.
From Whirlwind Romance to Murderous Schemes
The premise is simple but ripe for chaos: Natalia and Piotr’s whirlwind romance sours when a scratch-card windfall turns their marriage into a battleground. Instead of celebrating, the couple devises increasingly elaborate (and hilarious) plans to eliminate each other, all while maintaining a veneer of domestic bliss . The film’s tone leans into black comedy, a genre Zylber has dabbled in before, though his earlier work—like the award-winning Pożegnanie z Marią (1993)—skewed more toward drama .
While the original Turkish version set the template, Zylber’s adaptation injects Polish sensibilities, from the cast’s sharp comedic timing to the film’s satirical edge. The supporting ensemble, including Agnieszka Więdłocha, Piotr Rogucki, and Mirosław Baka, rounds out the dysfunctional world of Kill Me If You Dare, though details on their characters’ roles remain sparse .
A Director’s Pivot to Dark Comedy
Filip Zylber is no stranger to television, having directed hundreds of episodes across Polish series, but Kill Me If You Dare marks a return to feature filmmaking after a long hiatus . His shift into black comedy suggests a deliberate move away from the heavier themes of his early work, though whether this signals a new direction or a one-off experiment is unclear. The film’s Netflix release—part of the streamer’s growing appetite for international genre films—positions it as a test case for Zylber’s appeal to global audiences.
What’s Missing? The Behind-the-Scenes Gaps
For all its on-screen antics, Kill Me If You Dare keeps its production details under wraps. There’s no word on the budget, filming locations, or whether the cast’s chemistry translated into off-screen camaraderie (or tension). Rumors of reshoots or script rewrites? Nonexistent in the available evidence. Even the critical reception is thin—beyond a single review calling it a "Polish black comedy" with a premise that "delivers on its promise of twisted fun," there’s little to gauge how audiences or critics are reacting .
What is confirmed: the film’s Netflix debut on February 13, 2024, and its status as a remake, which might invite comparisons to the original Turkish version . But without deeper dives from Polish or international outlets, the behind-the-scenes story remains as elusive as Natalia and Piotr’s next murder plot.
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