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In Reel Time

‘Some Like It Cold’

By Nikolai Adams

Publishers Note: Sports Energy never return from. And so, a love
News would like to welcome Nikolai affair blossoms.
Adams to the “Team”. Nikolai After refining their skills, the
will be sharing his knowledge and troupe begins to tour the country with
insights with a monthly movie great success. Invited to Berlin, it is
review. A film critic for nearly a an impressive trajectory, yet we soon
decade, please review more of his learn that Wiktor has been preparing
work at his website, filmizon.com . for an escape to the West for some

Welcome Nikolai ! time. Intricately planned, he has
everything prepared for both he and
t is likely that any other year,
his love. Though this may seem like
Ioutside of 2018, that a second one
of Pawel Pawlikowski’s films would a concluding plot point, this is only
have won Best Foreign Language the beginning of a multi-year voyage.
Like watching poetry in motion,
Film at the Academy Awards (the
other is 2013’s Ida). Instead, Alfonso Pawlikowski and cinematographer
Lukasz Zal paint a beguiling motion Photo Submitted
Cuarón’s Roma (in its own right, a
truly visionary film) froze out Cold picture. It is Monet fused with songs being skewed by an agenda, Truly transcendent, I do not believe
War. Though the Polish export did the black and white sensuality of opposites attracting. You somehow that a profound piece such as this
influential Ukrainian photographer
achieve a nomination in the above suddenly realize that a reflection is not can come completely from the great
mentioned category, as well as Ruslan Lobanov. It has the historical an exact vision at all, but something unknown. And in fact, even more
aesthetic of old Hollywood fused with
receive nods for Best Achievement disturbingly different. That moment revelatory, Cold War is a relatively
in Directing and Best Achievement a wholly original avant-guard flair. It and the rest linger, entering the mind, true retelling of Pawlikowski’s own
in Cinematography, it, in many ways, is Casablanca and Brief Encounter body, and soul – for those moved parents’ story. To harken back to
meets The Unbearable Lightness
got overshadowed by another black by powerful motion pictures, you his previous work – if Ida is to be
and white foreign film released the of Being. It is raw, passionate, might never truly be the exact same contemplative in both story and style,
emotional, and real, striking both the
exact same year, which is truly a afterwards. Cold War is transcendent, symbolic of its main character - a
shame. cinematic heart and soul. revolutionary, eternal. nun who lives a static, regimented,
Set in post-war Poland – 1949, The narrative, which covers a full Like many of the best films of and simple life - Cold War is, in
decade and a half, often jumps years
to be exact – Cold War’s bold, the past several years, a unique use many ways, the opposite. The camera
confident, and gifted Wiktor (Tomasz between, allowing the audience’s of music is what ushers us through moves gracefully (its own dancing
mind to race, filling in the hinted-at
Kot), a very bourgeoisie musician (a this tumultuous journey. Polish character), the colours, though still
dynamo who can play the piano, as gaps that never will be truly revealed folk songs, filtering down from the black and white, are a more vivid and
well as write and arrange music) tours except in our own vivid imaginations. hilltops, in from the countryside, from dynamic range (the way faces can be
Also, like the best of cinema,
the countryside, recruiting the most out of the past and into the present painted with light so very differently
talented teens and twenty-somethings the journey’s end seems almost metamorphose into the sounds of the in the same shot is staggering), and
predestined. . . yet you only realize
for a folk music ensemble that will West. If listening closely, you might the overall piece bristles with a certain
tour Poland and the rest of the Eastern this when you are already there. It just recognize the same songs from energy. Though you would not deem
Bloc. One of the finds, Zula (Joanna lives history without being beholden earlier in the film rearranged in a this film to have much action, its
to it. Reflections (which are only
Kulig), an undaunted singer, may very different way (thank you Marcin pace, in a weird way, has a whirlwind
not be the purest talent, but she has used sparingly), provide a mesmeric Masecki, who was also Wiktor’s essence that sweeps us away.
perspective on the duality found in
that certain ‘je ne sais quoi’. With piano-playing hands). The only true From opening folk song to last
a mystifying persona, she is spark this abrupt new landscape – faith score found is one heard written for a gasp of wind, experience this story
plug, femme fatale (both director and attempted to be swallowed whole film within a film (1957’s, I Vampiri), for the ages. It is up to you to find out
by ideology, socialism desperately
actress inspired by Lauren Bacall meaning that, like the rest of the if this love story will be a bitter pill to
and her sarcastic delivery), and, trying to transform former ways music on this fifteen year journey, swallow.
of life, personal beliefs a dividing
somehow, ingénue. In her, Wiktor every single note we hear is what This film is in Polish, French, and
finds his muse. It is love at first sight, line like a wall built through a city, our characters hear as well (and what numerous other European languages
the genesis of a change that you can tradition befuddling modernity, folk better way to bond us to this couple!). with English subtitles
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