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    Polish Lovers Find Cold Comfort In The Elliptical, Frustrating 'Cold War'

    Pawel Pawlikowski follows up 2013's Ida with this tale of Polish musicians living under Stalin; it's "an ode to joylessness that feels historically credible but narratively arbitrary."
    by Mark Jenkins Dec 20, 2018 2 minutes
    Pawel Pawlikowski's film follows musician Wiktor (Tomasz Kot) and dancer Zola (Joanna Kulig) over the course of 15 tempestuous years.

    In the opening sequence of the artful and distinctive yet finally unsatisfying Cold War, three minor functionaries of Poland's new Communist regime canvass a remote region. Armed with a tape recorder, the travelers seek genuine "peasant" music. But only one of them is truly interested in authenticity.

    It's 1949, and musician Wiktor (Tomasz Kot), ethnomusicologist Irena

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