I was taken in by the hype and the trailer

Rating: 6/10 (17 March 2019)

I loved Pawel Pawlikovski's previous films - especially Ida - but this didn't work for me. The leads are competent enough but don't seem to have any chemistry. The music is nice but the staged numbers should have been in wide-screen colour. The main female character, Zula, is very unsympathetic. All she wanted was to be mistreated by everyone, including the world in general.
A shame, as I wanted to like it. It's not a love story. I honestly don't know what it is. A tragedy, maybe. But I didn't feel any sympathy for either of the two main characters.