Cold War (2018)
(Zimna wojna)
Country: POL/GB/FR/BEL
Technical: bw/1.37:1 89m
Director: Pawel Pawlikowski
Cast: Joanna Kulig, Tomasz Kot, Borys Szyc, Agata Kulesza
Synopsis:
In Poland after the war a state sponsored folklore and talent gathering operation brings Zula and Wiktor together. He is the music director and she a singer in the company. As the gala concerts begin to be hijacked for the purposes of Communist propaganda, he defects to the West while on a tour to Berlin and over the next decade their paths cross on both sides of the Iron Curtain.
Review:
Dedicated to the director's parents, and set in the same period as his previous film (Ida), this is about a rare love between musical geniuses who yet can never be contented together. She fears a loss of autonomy in a foreign land; he yearns for artistic freedom in a cosmopolitan setting that she sees as 'selling out'. Pawlikowski uses the same black and white Academy format and bottom heavy compositions, and the atmosphere of Europe at the time is beautifully caught. Unfolding in a series of vignettes, this is about as condensed as a film about so much could be.
(Zimna wojna)
Country: POL/GB/FR/BEL
Technical: bw/1.37:1 89m
Director: Pawel Pawlikowski
Cast: Joanna Kulig, Tomasz Kot, Borys Szyc, Agata Kulesza
Synopsis:
In Poland after the war a state sponsored folklore and talent gathering operation brings Zula and Wiktor together. He is the music director and she a singer in the company. As the gala concerts begin to be hijacked for the purposes of Communist propaganda, he defects to the West while on a tour to Berlin and over the next decade their paths cross on both sides of the Iron Curtain.
Review:
Dedicated to the director's parents, and set in the same period as his previous film (Ida), this is about a rare love between musical geniuses who yet can never be contented together. She fears a loss of autonomy in a foreign land; he yearns for artistic freedom in a cosmopolitan setting that she sees as 'selling out'. Pawlikowski uses the same black and white Academy format and bottom heavy compositions, and the atmosphere of Europe at the time is beautifully caught. Unfolding in a series of vignettes, this is about as condensed as a film about so much could be.
(Zimna wojna)
Country: POL/GB/FR/BEL
Technical: bw/1.37:1 89m
Director: Pawel Pawlikowski
Cast: Joanna Kulig, Tomasz Kot, Borys Szyc, Agata Kulesza
Synopsis:
In Poland after the war a state sponsored folklore and talent gathering operation brings Zula and Wiktor together. He is the music director and she a singer in the company. As the gala concerts begin to be hijacked for the purposes of Communist propaganda, he defects to the West while on a tour to Berlin and over the next decade their paths cross on both sides of the Iron Curtain.
Review:
Dedicated to the director's parents, and set in the same period as his previous film (Ida), this is about a rare love between musical geniuses who yet can never be contented together. She fears a loss of autonomy in a foreign land; he yearns for artistic freedom in a cosmopolitan setting that she sees as 'selling out'. Pawlikowski uses the same black and white Academy format and bottom heavy compositions, and the atmosphere of Europe at the time is beautifully caught. Unfolding in a series of vignettes, this is about as condensed as a film about so much could be.