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Cold War (Zimna wojna)
Two people are in a story of intense emotion but perhaps in bad circumstances. Both people seem to be quite different in style, style and behavior but live a strong love story in the Cold War of the 1950s in Paris, Berlin, Poland and Yugoslavia. It is an emotional and romantic story that will not be repeated in a time of impossible and difficult circumstances amidst these wars.
December 10, 1994 in Walcz, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland
13 November 1984, Split, Croatia, Yugoslavia
17 June 1966, Fontenay-aux-Roses, Hauts-de-Seine, France
12 December 1978, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
March 12, 1972 in Bourgoin-Jallieu, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France
1968, Poland
October 28, 1948 in Sosnowiec, Slaskie, Poland
25 December 1973, Bialystok, Podlaskie, Poland
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 30, 2018
In Cold War, every frame contains a moving beauty and intensity. [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.
October 27, 2018
It's sort of Richard Linklater's Before trilogy meets Casablanca, but condensed into an all-too-short 85-minute runtime.
November 02, 2018
Pawlikowski continues to be a master of frame composition. [Full Review in Spanish]
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]
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
August 28, 2018
One of the most colourful things you'll ever see in black and white.

