Ida
Overview
In this Pawel Pawlikowski-directed drama set in 1960s Poland, an orphaned teenager planning to become a nun visits her aunt. When she learns that her birth parents were Jews who were killed during the Holocaust, she sets off on a journey of self-discovery.
Awards:
Main Cast & Crew:
Pawel Pawlikowski - Director
Agata Kulesza
Agata Trzebuchowska
Dawid Ogrodnik
Jerzy Trela
Adam Szyszkowski
Halina Skoczynska
Joanna Kulig
Details
- Format: DVD (AC-3, Dolby)
- Run Time: 80
- UPC: 741360538542
- Genre: DRAMA
- Rating: PG13
- Release Date: September 2014
Movie Reviews
Reviews:
"Spare, haunting, uncompromising, IDA is a film of exceptional artistry whose emotions are as potent and persuasive as its images are indelibly beautiful." - 05/01/2014 Los Angeles Times
"Pawel Pawlikowski's IDA, a compact masterpiece set in Poland in the early 1960s, gets to the heart of its matter with startling swiftness." - 05/01/2014 Wall Street Journal
"It’s a breathtakingly gorgeous movie, full of painterly backdrops and stark juxtapositions of light and dark..." -- Grade: B+ A.V. Club
"IDA has some of the structure and feeling of an ancient folk tale." New York Times
4 stars out of 4 -- "Riveting, original and breathtakingly accomplished on every level, IDA would be a masterpiece in any era, in any country." - 05/02/2014 RogerEbert.com
"[I]t’s a remarkably beautiful film set in the early Sixities..." - 05/01/2014 Film Comment
4 stars out of 4 -- "IDA reaches spiritual depth through affecting performances rendered in sublime black-and-white compositions." - 05/22/2014 Chicago Sun-Times
4 stars out of 5 -- "Pawlikowski paints his world with disarmingly delicate brushstrokes." - 09/26/2014 Total Film
4 stars out of 4 -- "IDA is an art film in the finest sense of the term -- it is austere technique counterbalanced by emotions that bleed." - 01/05/2015 Rolling Stone
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