Cold War (2018)

Original title: Zimna wojna
Year: 2018
Running time: 88 min.
Country: Poland
Director: Pawel Pawlikowski
Screenwriter: Pawel Pawlikowski, Janusz Glowacki
Cinematography: Lukasz Zal (B&W)
Cast: Joanna Kulig, Tomasz Kot, Agata Kulesza, Borys Szyc, Cédric Kahn, Jeanne Balibar, Adam Woronowicz, Adam Ferency, Adam Szyszkowski
Producer: MK2 Productions / Apocalypso Pictures / Film4 / Opus Film / Protagonist / BFI Film Fund
Genre: Romance. Drama | Romantic Drama. 1950s. 1960s. Cold War. Music. Dancing
Synopsis / Plot: “Cold War” is a passionate love story between two people of different backgrounds and temperaments, who are fatally mismatched and yet fatefully condemned to each other. Set against the background of the Cold War in the 1950s in Poland, Berlin, Yugoslavia and Paris, the film depicts an impossible love story in impossible times.

Awards: 2018: Cannes Film Festival: Best Direction

Critics' reviews

"A transfixing miniature that evokes the eponymous midcentury geopolitical freeze with all the intricate, delicate decay of the Polish auteur’s Oscar-winning 'Ida'."

Guy Lodge: Variety
"A thrilling exploration of romantic disappointment with a killer soundtrack (...) Bittersweet and unbearably lovely"

Leslie Felperin: The Hollywood Reporter
"[It] shares some strengths with its predecessor (...) [It] is in some ways more familiar, but the spin he puts on it is distinctly and beautifully his own creation."

Steve Pond: The Wrap
"The beauty of his precise compositions is one of the great pleasures (...) 'Cold War' is rich in imagery and economical with dialogue."

Barbara Scharres: rogerebert.com
"As irreparable as these characters might seem, there’s something beautiful about watching them"

David Ehrlich: IndieWire
"Exquisitely chilling (...) Mysterious, musically glorious and visually ravishing (...) The crystalline black-and-white cinematography exalts its moments of intimate grimness (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"

Peter Bradshaw: The Guardian
"'Cold War' is glorious, sophisticated film-making (...) At times, particularly during the Polish sequences, Pawlikowski’s camera feels thrillingly liquid"

Fionnuala Halligan: Screendaily
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