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04/08/20

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Originally posted by alonso ↑

And I'm just about to write about the film "Cold War" from award winning Polish director Pawel Pawlkowski, which has echoes you wouldn't want to remember.
I remember his other big film "Ida" which had a similar mood. Often for me it's the mood of a movie I enjoy.
This one is set in the 1950s and follows the career moves and lives of two talented musicians who first meet & fall for each other at a state sponsored Polish cultural music/dance school. The traditional folk music is great but eventually the Communist govt wants them to include songs like "I love my tractor on the collective farm" and "Comrade Stalin is our great father figure", which dulls the enthusiasm for them both. The man escapes Poland and ends up playing piano in a Paris jazz club but the girl can't bring herself to make the leap. Eventually some years later she does but they both become jaded by life in the West.
Torn between two worlds just like the world is torn between two systems.
Great movie I thought. Good little jazz group too.

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Yah alonso, I watched it too.

Those times were grim.
To cheer up, I hummed that Russian song with the woman on screen.
No matter how much Poles bent over for Soviets, the Silent Majority
of theirs was always behind the curtain.

Chopin piano pieces were a treat.
No doubt we will be shadowing each other on many a screening.

Cheers,
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