The frame composition, greyscale photography, crisp camerawork and excellent musical choices actually turned out to be its saving grace, for without them, this Polish drama would be no less than an absolute chore. On an overall scale, Cold War is beautiful to look at but its story doesn't stimulate the senses the way its arresting imagery does. It's a good thing that the film is only 85 minutes long and ends before it becomes an ordeal to sit through. Joanna Kulig & Tomasz Kot do well with what they are given and while their work looks impressive, it doesn't truly resonate on an emotional level. Difficulties of living in exile or under totalitarian regime are only glimpsed at but never explored.
And the repetitive nature of it makes sure that we are never invested in them or their relationship or the troubles they find themselves in over the years. The story never digs into that aspect, for it only shows us the segments that brings them together before driving them apart again. The two lovebirds have no individual lives of their own. Watching the same episode repeated time n again in different places & years gets old & boring real soon, plus we never even grow to care about them. Co-written & directed by Pawel Pawlikowski, the film definitely benefits from its splendid camerawork & wonderful music but the romance aspect is both stale & soulless. The plot follows their romance over the years as their different backgrounds, varying temperaments & politics of the era keep separating them apart & bringing them back together. Set in the ruins of post-war Europe, the story concerns a musical director who discovers a young singer and helps her refine her talent.
Taking inspiration from his own parents' turbulent history, Pawel Pawlikowski's latest is a tale of cursed love in cursed times. From the Academy Award-winning director of Ida comes another cold, stark & emotionally distant feature, this time centred around a couple that can neither stay together nor live apart.
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