Cold War (Zimna wojna)
Both live in a state of intense passion through an exciting love story. Both people are quite different in style and tradition but live a strong love story in the Cold War of the 1950s in Poland, Paris and Berlin. This emotional story turns into a state of emotional attention in a time of impossible and difficult circumstances, and perhaps it is a story of love and will not be repeated.
25 December 1973, Bialystok, Podlaskie, Poland
1974, Rijeka, Croatia, Yugoslavia [now Croatia]
12 December 1978, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
4 September 1978, Lódz, Lódzkie, Poland
March 12, 1972 in Bourgoin-Jallieu, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France
17 June 1966, Fontenay-aux-Roses, Hauts-de-Seine, France
November 02, 2018
Pawlikowski continues to be a master of frame composition. [Full Review in Spanish]October 30, 2018
Pawlikowski is compelling his two lovers on a sadistic and slightly contrived trajectory to end-gain the moral of the story which is that corrosive politics destroy lives.September 05, 2018
Form and content seem oddly divorced, but music -- the Polish folk tunes, communist-propaganda anthems and Parisian torch songs -- sets the mood and saves the day.October 30, 2018
Pawel Pawlikowski puts on stage what is impossible to represent: the space for love in a world divided in two, in this masterful work, powerful and reflective, about passions denied by the historical context. [Full Review in Spanish]May 15, 2018
This is an achingly personal story - the romantic leads are named after Pawlikowski's own parents, to whom the film is dedicated - and also a sadly resigned one.September 07, 2018
A passionate love story (yes, there's a recurrent theme here) that plays out, with musical accompaniment and political resonance, across three decades in postwar Europe.May 14, 2018
The more we see this relationship, the more its mystery grows. That is the profound, beguiling truth with which Cold War ultimately leaves us.August 28, 2018
One of the most colourful things you'll ever see in black and white.October 31, 2018
It's got more energy and freedom than the more classically told Ida, and this can be seen in the camera movements, although occasionally it feels like the movie meanders as much as the characters do.October 27, 2018
It's sort of Richard Linklater's Before trilogy meets Casablanca, but condensed into an all-too-short 85-minute runtime.September 16, 2018
Luminously shot in black and white, with every frame artfully composed, Pawel Pawlikowski's powerful "Cold War"....casts a spell over audiences.October 30, 2018
In Cold War, every frame contains a moving beauty and intensity. [Full Review in Spanish]