Cold War

Cold War

  • Director: Pawel Pawlikowski
  • Writer: Pawel Pawlikowski,Janusz Glowacki,Piotr Borkowski
  • Countries of origin: Poland, United Kingdom, France, Belgium
  • Language: Polish, French, Croatian, German, Russian, Serbian, Italian
  • Release date: June 8, 2018
  • Sound mix: Dolby Digital
  • Aspect ratio: 1.37 : 1
  • Also known as: Chiến Tranh Lạnh
  • "Cold War" (foreign name: Cold War) is a film directed by Paweł Pawlikowski , starring Joanna Kulig and Tomasz Kot . It was screened at the Cannes Film Festival on May 10, 2018   .
    Set in Poland, Berlin, Yugoslavia and Paris during the Cold War in the 1950s, the film tells the love story of two men and women with different backgrounds and personalities who have gone through hardships.
    The film won the Best Director Award in the main competition of the 71st Cannes Film Festival.

    Details

    • Release date June 8, 2018
    • Filming locations Croatia
    • Production companies Opus Film, Polski Instytut Sztuki Filmowej, MK2 Films

    Box office

    Budget

    €4,300,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $4,580,048

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $54,353

    Gross worldwide

    $20,343,051

    Movie reviews

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    • By Dylan 2022-06-24 12:31:13

      Cold War--Horror Molecular Romanticism

      Movies with foreign political backgrounds, I really can’t empathize very well. People say they have a feeling of youth, but it should only be because the background of the times is similar to what happened in the art group. Think deeply about what makes you look at youth. Do you sense it? at all. My favorite part of the whole film is the period when the heroine lived in France. The loss and anxiety after revealing herself and herself, may be just work in the eyes of men, and finally...

    • By Deven 2022-04-23 07:03:17

      The first time I wrote it, it was the feeling of reading it, untitled

      Yesterday, I watched the movie "Cold War", and it was a black and white film. It was so beautiful. I was attracted by the various folk songs collected at the beginning, as well as the song that the heroine sang all the time. In fact, I prefer her version in France. It is simply the sound of heaven. I don't know how to shoot, I don't know which is better with color or without color, from my point of view, this movie feels very high-end, war movies themselves usually have no color, black or...

    • By Theodore 2022-04-23 07:03:17

      let's go over there

      2018 Cannes Film Festival Best Director Award! It records a trivial and entangled love between two young people who traveled to Poland, Berlin, Yugoslavia and Paris during the Cold War. Retro and elegant black and white pictures, beautiful and moving folk love songs, love that is doomed to a happy end under ideological confrontation, and even those political traces that are shrouded in the background of love that are shallow but thoughtful... It is not so much a story, It is better...

    • By Uriah 2022-04-23 07:03:17

      The cold war in the world of love

      The script completely blurs the Cold War background of ideological confrontation, weakens the core events, and even simplifies the existence of supporting characters. The narrative is completely revolved around the "love" of the male and female protagonists. If you look at the incident as the center, the plot of the film will have a strong sense of fragmentation. In fact, if you only look at the love line, it is still relatively coherent.

      The role of black and white images is not...

    • By Alfreda 2022-04-23 07:03:17

      A place with you is a better place

      When she married an Italian so she could legally leave Poland and go to Paris to find him, and said to him "but we didn't have a wedding in a church so it doesn't count", I always thought they should have a private marriage in a church for life , Unexpectedly, they will die together in an abandoned church, waiting for the last moment of life together, she said: Let's go there, the scenery on that side is better, but for more than 20 years, in order to be able to be with each other...

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    • By Gayle 2023-08-03 16:58:59

      The new shooting method of Melodrama, the ultimate image and the deliberate...

    • By Meagan 2023-06-20 12:12:46

      In the process of waiting for the aura, finally did not wait. ....

    • By Precious 2023-06-03 04:19:50

      The tune that cuts into the dark scene at the end is like a falling death weight, and I suddenly realize that it is Gould's Bach Goldberg variation. After watching the first 30 minutes, I thought that there would be many Chopins in the future, but after all, this is not a beautiful romance, but the cause and effect of the little people in the era of war. From the momentary fireworks with the fingers flying in the fantasy improv, to the calm departure that can no longer play the piano at the...

    • By Scarlett 2023-04-20 16:04:30

      10 points. Music, dance, photography, charisma... The Best Director Award deserves its name. Impossible Times and Impossible Love. Why do I think they could actually be together and not die together, if she hadn't done that? But such a dramatic character is too good-looking. The viewer also falls into the passion of love. The tragic happy ending ended too beautifully. Watching the film at Lumiere in Cannes, it takes two brushes to be disturbed....

    • By Eryn 2023-04-10 03:17:59

      Pretty... ok? I always feel that the contrast of "you were a man in Poland" could be deepened. The part before going to Paris is really nice. I always feel that the heroine is like a clever combination of JLaw and model...

    Movie plot

    The story begins in Poland in 1949, when the capitalist and socialist camps just started the Cold War after World War II. A recording vehicle drove through the rubbles of the Polish countryside, looking for records of all the sounds of folk music, from wind to strings, from percussion to vocals. In the car are musician Victor, producer Irena and supervisory officer Kachmarek. They are preparing to establish a youth folk music...
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    Evaluation action

    The main storyline of the film is under the almost square black and white picture, with a beautiful look, full of passion, hope, and a sense of perfect visual balance. In addition, this composition makes the protagonist seem to be a lonely existence in many cases. Joanna Kulig's performance is amazing. The heroine Zula she portrays is a complex character with multiple levels, and there are several huge changes in her mentality in the...
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    Movie quotes

    • Zula: He made a mistake with my mother, so I showed him his fault with a knife.

    • Zula: Are you interested in me, because I have a talent or in general?

    • Wiktor: Find another normal guy who can support you.

      Zula: Such man is not born yet.