Good music, beautiful photography, loose script.

Rating: 5/10 (12 December 2018)

After watching the film 'Ida', the impression produced by this second film known outside Poland by Pawel Pawlikowski is that it is a commission in the shadow of his success and not a quiet and meditated work of which the author can feel proud father. Probably in Ida's creation the author easily spent five years of his life, in this one it is obvious that the script are some brushstrokes sketched on the basis of faded in black and the label 'A few years later' that always slow down the rhythm and burden a story that in this case is conventional but typical and not very credible.
The first twenty minutes it seems that he was going to be satisfied with making a Carlos Saura film about Flamenco, only that applied to Polish folklore, and to the specific time in which they were under the yoke of the Warsaw Pact, and it would have been a worthy effort because both the music and the interpretations in that first part are really outstanding, but the melodrama enters the scene and spoils everything. A lost opportunity and a downturn in the trajectory of this author that we hope will give us much more 'Idas' than 'Cold Wars' in the future.