Cold War

Stephen Campbell

2019-05-17

⭐ 6

**_Aesthetically perfect, narratively frustrating_** >_It's very much to do with my parents - the world they lived in that kind of shaped them, tripped them up. But it's also about two people who are very strong individuals, and very attractive. My father was an old-fashioned guy who said a woman has to fit in, and my mother just didn't at all. Their story had betrayal, and separations, getting together again, having a baby, then divorcing and really falling out horribly, then leaving the country separately. My father escaped. My mom married an English guy in order to leave Poland, with me_…

The film that made me fall in love with cinema. And later become and actor! Every frame aches. Every glance is a trapdoor. Cold War is a masterclass in restraint - two souls orbiting each other through music, war, and impossible borders. Love doesn’t always survive history. Sometimes, it is history.

CinemaSerf

2026-03-19

⭐ 7

With the Second World War barely behind them, musical maestro “Wiktor” (Tomasz Kot) is on the lookout for some new talent to front his Polish folk outfit. Touring the still devastated and recovering rural communities of his country with producer “Irena” (Agata Kukesza), they aren’t really having much luck. Returning to set up a music school with apparatchik “Kaczmarek” (Borys Szyc) he espies “Zula” (Joanna Kulig). She is formidably ambitious, can sing and can dance but more than that - she has that little je ne sais quoi that he thinks he needs. Of course, what starts off as a purely practical…