Glorious

Rating: 8/10 (3 February 2019)

Movie night with Iris.
This is glorious stuff that like 'Ida' rekindles the glory days of 60's New Wave cinema.
Supposedly inspired by Pawlikowski's own parents, this is shot in gorgeous black and white. Mesmerising is the wonderful fiery, impulsive performance from Kulig. Her relationships are combustible in the extreme. Real can't live without each other, can't live with each other.
Without being explicit or epic, the film leaps around the post-war Iron curtain. As the years pass, the two lads continue to crash into one another. The film never loses its intimate, playful and humorous tone. In under 90 minutes we're taken right through the main staging posts in the two lovers' lives. Separation, betrayal, alcoholism, ageing and even imprisonment.