Cold War

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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: Co-production Poland-United Kingdom-France; MK2 Productions / Apocalypso Pictures / Film4 Productions / 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: Academy Awards: Nominated for Best Director, Cinematography & Foreign Film

2018: Cannes Film Festival: Best Direction

2018: BAFTA Awards: 4 Nominations, including for Best Foreign Language Film

2018: New York Film Critics Circle: Best Foreign Film

2018: European Film Awards: Best Fim, Director, Screenplay, Editing & Actress (Kulig)

2018: National Board of Review (NBR): Best Foreign Film

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2018: Critics Choice Awards: Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film

2018: Chicago Film Critics Awards: 2 Nom. including Best Foreign Language Film

2018: British Independent Film Awards: Nominated for Best International Film

2018: Satellite Awards: Nominated for Best Foreign Film & Cinematography

2018: Goya Awards: Best European Film

2018: César Awards: Nominated for Best Foreign Film

2018: Gaudí Awards: Best European Film

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
"As irreparable as these characters might seem, there’s something beautiful about watching them"

David Ehrlich: IndieWire
"A love story that melds the personal, the political and the profound (...) It’s a spellbinder with a fever that won’t quit (…) Rating: ★★★★½ (out of 5)"

Peter Travers: Rolling Stone
"If you want more, it’s because the worlds he opens up and his two impossible, irresistible lovers are so beguiling that you would like to linger longer, learn more, see more."

Manohla Dargis: The New York Times
"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
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