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Doors open at 6:45pm
King's Film Society Presentation
Set during the eponymous state of geopolitical tension following World War II, Cold War is a portrait of the complex relationship between two doomed lovers and their country.
An epic, visually arresting love story spanning borders and decades by master filmmaker Paweł Pawlikowski, director of the Academy Award–winning Ida, Cold War employs a luminous black-and-white palette and is beautifully and deliberately composed, the fluidity of its roving camerawork washing over you like a dream.
Wiktor (Tomasz Kot) is a talent scout travelling through rural Poland to recruit artists for a music and dance ensemble. When Zula (Joanna Kulig), a determined woman with a streak of darkness, sings for him, he is instantly entranced. As it becomes clear that the ensemble is forming a Stalinist agenda, Wiktor and Zula defect to the west side of the Iron Curtain while on tour. The two then embark on a tempestuous love affair that is as syncopated and elliptical as the jazz that infuses the film. Both are hardened but damaged survivors of their circumstances, weighed down by a lifetime of compromises and the omnipresent necessity of self-interest. In times of peace, they take each other for granted, but in times of extreme hardship, they always reunite with a crystallized sense of perspective and purpose.
Directed by Pawel Pawlikowski
Starring Joanna Kulig and Tomasz Kot
Polish, French, Russian, German, Italian, and Croatian w/ English subtitles
Rated NR · 1h 28m
“This is the refined work of an artist at the peak of his powers, and, dare we say it, a masterpiece.” – CineVue
“It’s visually stunning, passionate, wistful, and thoughtful in equal measure.” – Vulture
“The crystalline black-and-white cinematography exalts its moments of intimate grimness and its dreamlike showpieces of theatrical display. It is an elliptical, episodic story of imprisonment and escape, epic in scope.” –The Guardian
Thank you to our community partners Kew Furniture, Bailey House B&B, and Bridgetown Clock.
[email protected]
(902) 532-7704
Doors open at 6:45pm
King's Film Society Presentation
Set during the eponymous state of geopolitical tension following World War II, Cold War is a portrait of the complex relationship between two doomed lovers and their country.
An epic, visually arresting love story spanning borders and decades by master filmmaker Paweł Pawlikowski, director of the Academy Award–winning Ida, Cold War employs a luminous black-and-white palette and is beautifully and deliberately composed, the fluidity of its roving camerawork washing over you like a dream.
Wiktor (Tomasz Kot) is a talent scout travelling through rural Poland to recruit artists for a music and dance ensemble. When Zula (Joanna Kulig), a determined woman with a streak of darkness, sings for him, he is instantly entranced. As it becomes clear that the ensemble is forming a Stalinist agenda, Wiktor and Zula defect to the west side of the Iron Curtain while on tour. The two then embark on a tempestuous love affair that is as syncopated and elliptical as the jazz that infuses the film. Both are hardened but damaged survivors of their circumstances, weighed down by a lifetime of compromises and the omnipresent necessity of self-interest. In times of peace, they take each other for granted, but in times of extreme hardship, they always reunite with a crystallized sense of perspective and purpose.
Directed by Pawel Pawlikowski
Starring Joanna Kulig and Tomasz Kot
Polish, French, Russian, German, Italian, and Croatian w/ English subtitles
Rated NR · 1h 28m
“This is the refined work of an artist at the peak of his powers, and, dare we say it, a masterpiece.” – CineVue
“It’s visually stunning, passionate, wistful, and thoughtful in equal measure.” – Vulture
“The crystalline black-and-white cinematography exalts its moments of intimate grimness and its dreamlike showpieces of theatrical display. It is an elliptical, episodic story of imprisonment and escape, epic in scope.” –The Guardian
Thank you to our community partners Kew Furniture, Bailey House B&B, and Bridgetown Clock.
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Pricing
Tickets: $11 Adult, $10 with Film Buff Card, $8 Youth.
All prices include HST.
Tickets: $11 Adult, $10 with Film Buff Card, $8 Youth.
All prices include HST.
Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia
[email protected]
902-532-7704
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