Unlikable love story

Rating: 2/10 (21 February 2019)

Beautifully shot and well-acted, but shallow and irritating. The film depicts the love story but takes no time to tell you who the lovers are or why they do what they do. With them at arm's length, there's so little to grasp onto and as the finale unfolds, I just ended up rolling my eyes. There were several good movies that could have come out of this - one about gathering folk songs in rural Communist Poland, one about Polish expatriates in Paris, one about working in the Soviet music industry - none of these are the movie that was made, however, and any of those would have required more detail given to character to make it work. As it stands, this failed to make me care.