A passionate love story between two people of different backgrounds and temperaments, who are fatefully mismatched, set against the background of the Cold War in the 1950s in Poland, Berlin, Yugoslavia and Paris. Read more …
Pawlikowski is in complete control of the form, but this is no austere piece of work — he even finds time for a few good jokes. Accessible, humane and compassionate: what a treat this is.
All the ingredients are there, but it doesn’t quite come together.
Like a bleaker, Eastern-bloc take on Richard Linklater’s Before trilogy, it understands the intensity and complexity of a true connection as it reverberates through the years.
Paweł Pawlikowski’s love letter to his parents is a sweeping tale of passion and politics set in the shadow of the iron curtain.
General release. Check local listings for show times.