COLD WAR (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Joanna Kulig (The Woman in the Fifth), Tomasz Kot (Gods), Borys Szyc (Spoor), Agata Kulesza (Ida), Jeanne Balibar (A Private Affair), Cédric Kahn (Red Lights), Adam Woronowicz (The Christening), Adam Ferency (The Mother of Kings), Adam Szyszkowski (Avalon)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Pawel Pawlikowski (Ida), director, writer; Janusz Glowacki (A Trip Down The River), writer; Ewa Puszczynska (The Congress) and Tanya Seghatchian (My Summer of Love), producers; Lukasz Zal (Loving Vincent), cinematographer; Jaroslaw Kaminski (Jack Strong), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Set in Europe during the early days of the Cold War during the 1950s, a woman named Zula (Kulig) and a man named Wiktor (Kot), two people from very different backgrounds and temperaments, are fatefully mismatched yet are drawn ever closer to one another…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Pawel Pawlikowski, director of Ida, follows up his Oscar-winning film with a stunning throwback to old-fashioned noir romance movies of the 1950s, all with a swish and suave European feel to it.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 31ST AUGUST 2018

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