By notacinephile on Skatehive
On my first watch of Cold War from 2018 it caught me off guard with its ingenuity and apathetic as a matter of fact tone towards intense passion. It was the first time I saw a Pawel Pawlikowski film and was much pursued. How the story goes Poland. Some time after the second world war, a state sponsored academy travels the country in search of folk music. They audition young men and women to find talents that will suit the academy. Among the juries, there is Wiktor, a pianist and an opera director. He and Zula, a new, pretty and young talent fall head over heels in love. But shortly they both realize the road to attain each other's company won’t be a clean one across a sunny, green country. Soon the academy is forced to uphold, cherish and spread communist propaganda and sing merry songs about this champ here, yes you guessed right! Wiktor decides to leave Poland and take zula with him. But does Zula go with him? No, she’s too much of a pragmatist. Zula does not leave. And in the next 1