Zimna Wojna (2018)
Genre: Drama / Romance
Duration: 89 minuten
Alternative title: Cold War
Country:
Poland / United Kingdom / France / Belgium
Directed by: Pawel Pawlikowski
Stars: Joanna Kulig, Tomasz Kot and Borys Szyc
IMDb score:
7,5 (65.131)
Releasedate: 8 June 2018
Zimna Wojna plot
A passionate love story between two people of different backgrounds and temperaments, who don't fit together and yet are condemned to each other. Set against the backdrop of the Cold War in the 1950s, in Poland, Berlin, Yugoslavia and Paris, the film shows an impossible love story in impossible times.
Actors and actresses
Zuzanna "Zula" Lichoń
Wiktor Warski
Lech Kaczmarek
Irena Bielecka
Michel
Juliette
Consul
Minister
Camp Guard
Sleuth 1
Reviews & comments
BBarbie
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- 7675 votes
I can broadly agree with the preceding comment of Alathir. I didn't get hot or cold from this film either. My main problem is that the story revolves around two characters who deal in a very weird way with their feelings for each other, whether or not forced by the circumstances of the Cold War. At no point did I feel connected to these characters.
The music is okay, but not exceptional. The best thing about the film is the cinematography in beautiful black and white. My third Pawlikowski now. Like the two previous films I've seen by him, this one doesn't rise above average in terms of score.
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tbouwh
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Pawlikowski's film style is a new celebration of the tranquil black and white that made Ida (2013) a success. Partly due to the high-contrast photography, we actually feel like we are in the past. Cold War goes one step further: the images not only resonate in a 'tradition' (see this Cine-article) of contemporary black-and-white films, they also implicitly refer to a great figure from the European arthouse canon. Somewhere halfway through the film, the camera slides slowly along a quay, where an almost mythical spectacle takes place. A number of couples celebrate the love in the distance between water and land. The gloomy sense of distance (the camera is placed on the boat in which Zula and Wiktor are) is reinforced by the more or less equal spans between the different couples and the slow image dynamics. Is this the antidote to the idyllic desert scene in Michelangelo Antonioni's Zabriskie Point (1970)? There, the bodies of several couples intertwined in the run-up to the inevitable destruction. Here, in the black and white of a torn Europe, the separation seems to have been effected from the start: love is conditional. There's not even a perspective to dream, to get lost in the romance before, grab it, Pink Floyd's musical violence breaks out and the world explodes. In Cold War, the world is so on edge that Wiktor and Zula are constantly moving between flight and standstill. Divorce has become the norm.
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kos
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- 8876 votes
Eastern European intellectuals in exile in the sensual, rebellious Paris of the 1950s making black and white jazz music.
What a very highbrow hahaha.
But to be honest, it is quite successful, especially because of the beautiful images and that Zula is also a nice voluptuous appearance that fits exactly in this film.
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