Cold, yes

Rating: 6/10 (24 April 2019)

While certainly beautiful to look, Cold War - based on the director's parents - does indeed feel cold. Though two artists, getting drunk on Paris life an utterly absorbed with each other (for the most part) the film is strangely devoid of passion. Unlike Betty Blue - a tragic look at a couple obsessed with each other and in love - the lack of character depth in either the father or mother lends itself a more melodramatic feel. Artistically put together and lyrically beautiful, it doesn't hit the spot in the same way as The Last Resort. There is something very sad about it (there is no child in the film - no Pawel Pavlovsky himself) which must surely stem from Pavlosvsky's relationship with his parents. Yes they were glamorous, artistic and popular, but also self-absorbed. A somewhat distant couple through the eyes of a child.