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Cold War

Director: Pawel Pawlikowski

Country/Distributor: Poland, Amazon studios

Opening: December 21

POLAND HAS SEEN MORE THAN ITS share of war, and of the art and cinema of exile. Pawel Pawlikowski’s latest feature, , is a spirited albeit flawed entry in this category, which encompasses Jerzy Skolimowski’s (1984), Andrzej Wajda’s (1980), and Krzysztof Kieslowski’s (1994). shares with these the bitter longing and the loneliness of those far from

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