We’ve had massive audiences this season and have had to turn people away.
Anticipating huge interest in the two upcoming films that have been nominated for
the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film [among other awards]
and to avoid further disappointment, we have added screenings for these films:
Cold War [Zimna Wojna – Poland], Thursday 28 February at 6pm and 8pm.
Box office opens for first screening at 5:30pm.
A chilling Soviet-era drama of wounded love and state sponsored fear in 1950s Poland from the director of Ida, which won the 2015 Academy Award Winner for Best Foreign Language Film. Best Director prize winner at Cannes.
Without any hyperbole, it is one of the films of the year, and possibly of the last decade. – Irish Independent ★★★★★
Paweł Pawlikowski follows his Oscar-winning Ida with the stunning Cold War, an epic romance set against the backdrop of Europe after World War II. Sumptuously shot in luminous black and white, it spans decades and nations to tell a love story that is as tragic as it is moving, and as transportive as it is honest.
In the ruins of post-war Poland, Wiktor and Zula fall deeply, obsessively and destructively in love. As performing musicians forced to play into the Soviet propaganda machine, they dream of escaping to the creative freedom of the West. But one day, as they spot their chance to make a break for Paris, both make a split decision that will mark their lives forever. As the years march on in the wake of that moment, Wiktor and Zula watch the world changing around them, always struggling to find their moment in time.
Pawlikowski melds the personal with the political to exquisite effect. Set to a soundtrack that takes you from the rustic folk songs of rural Poland to the sultry jazz of a Paris basement bar, it’s a wistful and dreamlike journey through a divided continent – and a heartbreaking portrait of ill-fated love.
Irish Times – One of the Best Films of 2018. ★★★★★
Ida director Pawel Pawlikowski’s exquisitely chilling Soviet-era drama maps the dark heart of Poland itself. – The Guardian ★★★★★
Poland, 2018 |Language: Polish | 88 minutes | Cert: CLUB
Director: Pawel Pawlikowski
Cast: Joanna Kulig, Tomasz Kot, Borys Szyc, Cedric Kahn
