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Tuesday, February 19, 2019

Cold War (2018)

This is a grown up version of Romeo and Juliet.  It is not their parents that keeps them apart but rather their country, but it is no less tragic.  One review that I read said that it swells your heart and then it breaks it.
It’s a tale with the makings of a legendary saga, following the union and break-up (and union and break-up again and again) of Wiktor and Zula, a classically gorgeous couple from the opposite sides of the tracks. They first meet deep in the dilapidated countryside of the post-World War II Poland. They soon thereafter embark on a stormy affair that disastrously evolves over two isolating decades and numerous unsympathetic locales across Europe.  Their choices and their circumstances recur across time,a and are so well told here.
The story will stay with you, as all good tragic love stories do.  The cinematography is so achingly gorgeous that it is a little bit of a downer when it ends and you have to return to your technicolor world.  This black and white one was so much more vivid in comparison.  It is perfect in so many ways.  Do not miss this.

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