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Cold War|Criterion Collection

Cold War

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Overview

Two Polish musicians, Wiktor (Tomasz Kot) and Zula (Joanna Kulig) meet during auditions for a folk ensemble. Set during the 1950s Cold War, the narrative spans fifteen-years and navigates across four countries as the couple's love affair undulates throughout. After the group's manager Kaczmarek (Borys Szyc) makes a controversial political decision, the lovers drift apart in this transient drama about love across all borders. Directed and co-written by Pawel Pawlikowski.

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Details

    Blu-Ray Disc Format
  • Format: Blu-ray
  • UPC: 715515238311
  • Genre: DRAMA
  • Rating: R (MPAA)
  • Release Date: November 2019

Movie Reviews

Reviews:
"[A] haunted romantic epic in miniature, like a novel written with the careful, precise economy of a short story." - 12/21/2018 A.V. Club


"[B]ittersweet and unbearably lovely....Achingly romantic but also wryly realistic about the destructive power of eros, the drama spans a decade and a bit from the late 1940s to the early 1960s." - 05/10/2018 Hollywood Reporter


"[A] transfixing miniature that evokes the eponymous midcentury geopolitical freeze with all the intricate, delicate decay of the Polish auteur’s Oscar-winning IDA." - 05/10/2018 Variety


4 stars out of 4 -- "An aching film on such exquisite pains of impossible love, Pawel Pawlikowski’s COLD WAR concurrently swells your heart and breaks it, just like the sore memory of a lover that drifted away from your life..." - 12/17/2018 RogerEbert.com


"[T]he movie has been built for maximum seduction. It has just enough politics to give it heft, striking black-and-white images and an in-the-mood-for-love ambiguity that suggests great mysteries are in store for those who watch and wait." - 12/20/2018 New York Times


4.5 stars out of 5 -- "[T]here’s enough sizzling carnality in COLD WAR to the singe the screen." - 12/19/2018 Rolling Stone


"Pawlikowski’s use of grainy, tonally muted cinematography and handheld camerawork in the Poland sequences, evoking documentary, beautifully captures the drabness of the 1950s era." - 11/01/2018 Film Comment


"The movie packs more raw emotion into its slender 85-minute running time than many good and far lengthier films do." - 12/19/2018 The Atlantic


"[B]lessed by pellucid black-and-white photography and a transporting wild card performance from Joanna Kulig." - 12/27/2018 Boston Globe

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