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Joanna Kulig and Tomasz Kot in "Cold War" by Pawel Pawlikowski. Neue Visionen Filmverleih
In 2015, director Pawel Pawlikowski won the Oscar for best foreign film for "Ida". At the last Cannes Film Festival, he left with the Prize for the Direction for "Cold War", an impossible love story between a jazz pianist and a villager in 1950s Poland. The film is released this Wednesday 24 October in theaters.
Wiktor is a jazz pianist who falls in love with a young villager, Zula, during a recruitment campaign for a folkloric group ... Cold War is the story of a crazy passion between East and West, between Poland under Soviet domination and the bohemian Paris of the 1950s. Because when Wiktor has the courage to flee, Zula prefers to stay in his country ...
A story inspired by his parents
Pawel Pawlikowski films an impossible love, two characters unable to live together or separated. And he was inspired by the couple of his parents. " Zula's character is pretty close to my mother and everything that's going on between them ... They fought, divorced, got together, left the country with others, met again in the stranger, put back together, fought again ... They were two characters, one as strong as the other. There was no one who surrendered. "
A very contrasted black and white
Pawel Pawlikowski magnifies this love story against the backdrop of the Cold War by the use of a sumptuous black and white, very contrasted, and a jazz music that marries the torment of his characters.
► Director Pawel Pawlikowski is our Culture Guest of October 24th.