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Cold War

Zimna wojna

2018

Pawel Pawlikowski

Joanna Kulig, Tomasz Kot, Agata Kulesza, Borys Szyc ...

7.1

16,494

Romance. Drama “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.

	Media	Author	Review
		Guy Lodge Variety	"A transfixing miniature that evokes the eponymous midcentury geopolitical freeze with all the intricate, delicate decay of the Polish auteur’s Oscar-winning 'Ida'."
		Leslie Felperin The Hollywood Reporter	"A thrilling exploration of romantic disappointment with a killer soundtrack (...) Bittersweet and unbearably lovely"
		Steve Pond The Wrap	"[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."
		David Ehrlich IndieWire	"As irreparable as these characters might seem, there’s something beautiful about watching them"
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"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 Travers Rolling Stone	"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)"
		Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"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."
		Barbara Scharres rogerebert.com	"The beauty of his precise compositions is one of the great pleasures (...) 'Cold War' is rich in imagery and economical with dialogue."
		Fionnuala Halligan Screendaily	"'Cold War' is glorious, sophisticated film-making (...) At times, particularly during the Polish sequences, Pawlikowski’s camera feels thrillingly liquid"
		Tim Robey Telegraph	"Kulig, as effervescent in her way as the young Jeanne Moreau, is the film’s life force (...) It’s both pristine and jazzy – emotionally aloof by design, but still accessible (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Geoffrey Macnab The Independent	"A film made with a verve and lyricism which rekindles memories of the glory days of European New Wave cinema (...) [It] never loses its ironic edge (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		David Sexton London Evening Standard	"The film is beautifully articulated by its music, with changing versions of a few songs, and it is eloquent about the impossibility of living with integrity in a totalitarian regime (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"

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