Film: A love letter to life in the slow lane
Cold War (filmed once again in lustrous black and white) sets a decade-spanning saga of on again, off again love against the momentous backdrop of a bleak era in recent Polish history, the post-World War II absorption by the USSR
Cinema
Cold War: Directed by Paweł Pawlikowski, nationwide, 15A,Rating:*****
I, Dolours: Directed by Maurice Sweeney, Selected, 15A,Rating:***
A fractured love story about fractured people in a fractured country, Paweł Pawlikowski’s Cold War is nothing if not true to its title. The Polish-British director follows his Oscar-winning Ida with this haunting romance (filmed once again in lustrous black and white) that sets a decade-spanning saga of on again, off again love against the momentous ...