#1005: PAWLIKOWSKI, Pawel: Cold War (2018)

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PAWLIKOWSKI, Pawel (Poland)
Cold War [2018]
Spine #1005
Blu-ray


This sweeping, delirious romance by Pawel Pawlikowski begins in the Polish countryside, where Wiktor (Tomasz Kot), a musician on a state-sponsored mission to collect folk songs, discovers a captivating young singer named Zula (Joanná Kulig, in a performance for the ages). Over the next fifteen years, their turbulent relationshiup will play out in stolen moments between the jazz clubs of decadent bohemian Paris, to which he escapes, and the corrupt, repressive Communist Bloc, where she remains — universes bridged by their passion for music and for each other. Photographed in luscious monochrome and suffused with the melancholy of the simple folk song that provides a motif for the couple's fateful affair, Pawlikowski's timeless story — inspired by that of his own parents — is a heart-stoppingly grand vision of star-crossed love caught up in the tide of history.

88 minutes
Black & White
5.1 Surround
in Polish, Croation, Russian, German, Italian, and French
1:33:1 aspect ratio
Criterion Release 2019
Director/Writers


Screenplay by Pawel Pawlikokwski and Janusz Glowacki.
With the collaboration of Piotr Borkowski.
Pawlikokwski was 61 when he directed Cold War.

The Film

A

Film Rating (0-60):

60

The Extras

 The Booklet

Twelve-page booklet featuring an essay by film critic Stephanie Zacharek.

Commentary

None.

Conversation

Between Pawlikowski and filmmaker Alejandro G. Iñárritu.

Press conference

From the 2018 Cannes Film Festival featuring Pawlikowski and DP Łukasz Žal; actors Kulig, Kot, and Szyc; and producer Ewa Puszczyńska.

Two 2018 programs

On the making of the film, featuring behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with Pawlikowski and others.

Trailer

Extras Rating (0-40):

39

60 + 39 =

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