Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and writer Annie Proulx, whose works include the short story that was turned into the groundbreaking eight-Oscar-nomination Brokeback Mountain, and The Shipping News, was moved by passion to write a guest column on Cold War. Director Pawel Pawlikowski wrote his black-and-white Poland-set historical period drama with Janusz Głowacki and Piotr Borkowski, and based the plot set in the ruins of post-World War II Poland on the love story of his own parents. The film stars Tomasz Kot and Joanna Kulig as the couple, and the Amazon Studios-released film is up for three Oscars including Best Foreign Language Film, Best Director (Pawlikowski) and Best Cinematography (Lukasz Zal).
I was bound to this film from the first powerful image, happy that it was in black and white, then the unblinking semi-rigid musicians in cultural straight jackets that began to expand into an almost-lost musical world.
The film shapes itself around the love story,...
I was bound to this film from the first powerful image, happy that it was in black and white, then the unblinking semi-rigid musicians in cultural straight jackets that began to expand into an almost-lost musical world.
The film shapes itself around the love story,...
- 2/13/2019
- by Annie Proulx
- Deadline Film + TV
Cold War established itself early as a film to watch with Pawel Pawlikowski taking the best director award this year at Cannes Film Festival, where it had its world premiere. Poland agreed with the assessment, making the striking black-and-white love story set against the backdrop of Europe’s post-World War II ruins its Oscar submission. Now Amazon has released a trailer for the pic, which it is putting in theaters December 21.
The film stars Joanna Kulig and Tomasz Kot, who are fatally mismatched and yet fatefully condemned to each other. Set during the 1950s Cold War in Poland, Berlin, Yugoslavia and Paris, the couple is separated by politics, character flaws and unfortunate twists of fate.
Pawlikowski told Deadline at Cannes that the story of a musicologist, Wiktor (Kot), and singer, Zula (Kulig), was dedicated to his parents, as it’s “somewhat inspired by their tempestuous relationship — they had [both] a great love and a great war.
The film stars Joanna Kulig and Tomasz Kot, who are fatally mismatched and yet fatefully condemned to each other. Set during the 1950s Cold War in Poland, Berlin, Yugoslavia and Paris, the couple is separated by politics, character flaws and unfortunate twists of fate.
Pawlikowski told Deadline at Cannes that the story of a musicologist, Wiktor (Kot), and singer, Zula (Kulig), was dedicated to his parents, as it’s “somewhat inspired by their tempestuous relationship — they had [both] a great love and a great war.
- 10/4/2018
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
A broken love story about broken people in a broken country, Paweł Pawlikowski’s “Cold War” is nothing if not true to its title. Barren even in its fleeting moments of joy, and emotionally inaccessible to the extreme, the film is dark enough to make the director’s Oscar-winning “Ida” feel like a frivolous comedy. And yet, as irreparable as these characters might seem, there’s something beautiful about watching them, in less than 90 minutes, try to fix each other over the course of 20 years — to become whole at any cost, long after they’ve forgotten what that really feels like.
Romance must have been hard to find in post-war Poland. We meet Wiktor (Tomasz Kot) in 1949. A wiry music conductor who’s taken a job at a folk-music academy, Wiktor drives around the remote tundras of the country’s outer rim with his recorder, searching for signs of life.
Romance must have been hard to find in post-war Poland. We meet Wiktor (Tomasz Kot) in 1949. A wiry music conductor who’s taken a job at a folk-music academy, Wiktor drives around the remote tundras of the country’s outer rim with his recorder, searching for signs of life.
- 5/11/2018
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
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