Cold War
56th New York Film Festival
September 28 - October 14, 2018
Academy Award–winner Paweł Pawlikowski follows up his box-office sensation Ida with this bittersweet, exquisitely crafted tale of a tempestuous love between a pianist and a singer as they navigate the realities of living in both Poland and Paris, in and outside of the Iron Curtain.
Academy Award–winner Paweł Pawlikowski follows up his box-office sensation Ida with this bittersweet, exquisitely crafted tale of an impossible love. Set between the late 1940s and early 1960s, Cold War is, as the title implies, a Soviet-era drama, but it stringently and inventively avoids the clichés of many a classical-minded World War II art film, tracking the tempestuous love between pianist (Tomasz Kot) and singer (Joanna Kulig) as they must navigate the realities of living in both Poland and Paris, in and outside of the Iron Curtain. Shot in crisp black-and-white and set to a bewitching jazzy score, Pawlikowski’s evocatively detailed film consummately depicts an uncompromising passion caught up in the gears of history. An Amazon Studios release.
Watch Paweł Pawlikowski discuss Cold War at the 56th New York Film Festival.
Impeccably made... haunting, atmospheric, passionate and tempestuous.
—Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
A dazzling, painful, universal odyssey through the human heart.
—Phil De Semlyen, Time Out
Glorious, sophisticated film-making... Joanna Kulig is arresting.
—Fionnuala Halligan, Screen International
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