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Ida (2014) | dir. Paweł Pawlikowski

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Transcendental Cinema || The Art of Boredom ||

Ida (2013), Paweł Pawlikowski

Wanda : Do you have sinful thoughts sometimes?

Anna : Yes

Wanda : About carnal love?

Anna : No.

Wanda : That's a shame. You should try, otherwise what sort of sacrifice are these vows of yours?

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Ida (2013)

Director: Paweł Pawlikowski

Cinematography: Łukasz Żal, Ryszard Lenczewski

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 Agata Trzebuchowska

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Agata Trzebuchowska in Ida (Pawel Pawlikowski, 2013)

Cast: Agata Kulezsa, Agata Trzebuchowska, Dawid Ogrodnik, Adam Szyszkowski, Jerzy Trela, Joanna Kulig. Screenplay: Pawel Pawlikowski, Rebecca Lenkiewicz, Cinematography: Ryszard Lenczewski, Lukasz Zal. Production design: Marcel Slawinski, Katarzyna Sobanska. Film editing: Jaroslaw Kaminski. Music: Kristian Eidnes Andersen. 

A successful film needs the correct balance of story and style, and when the story is as straightforward as Ida's, there's a great risk of overwhelming it with stylistic tricks. A novice called Anna (Agata Trzebuchowska) is about to take her vows to become a nun when she learns that she has an aunt, Wanda Gruz (Agata Kulesza), who wants to meet her. It is the 1960s, and Wanda is a judge in the courts of the communist government with a reputation for having for having presided brutally over the show trials of the 1950s that solidified communist power. She tells Anna, who was raised in an orphanage, that she was born to Jewish parents, one of whom was Wanda's sister, and that her birth name was Ida Lebenstein. Anna goes with Wanda in search of the graves of her parents and the son whom Wanda left with them when she joined the resistance during the war. Along the way, the tough, hard-drinking, sexually liberated Wanda, determined to provoke Anna out of her ascetic, devout ways, picks up a handsome young hitchhiker named Lis (Dawid Ogrodnik), a jazz saxophonist on his way to a gig. The story that director Pawel Pawlikowski and co-screenwriter Rebecca Lenkiewicz develop from this situation is told in an austerely beautiful manner. Two cinematographers are credited: Lukasz Zal took over as director of photography after Ryszard Lenczewski became ill during filming; both were deservedly nominated for cinematography Oscars. Pawlikowski chose to film in black-and-white to evoke the Polish films of the 1960s, the era of the young Roman Polanski, Jerzy Skolimowski, and Andrzej Wajda, although it's more accurate to refer to the cinematography as monochrome because the use of the many shades of gray and the emphasis on the textures of walls and skies and landscapes is extraordinary. The images are also strikingly framed: Characters rarely appear in the direct center of the screen, but are shifted toward the bottom or the corner of images. (Remarkably, the film also sometimes moves the subtitles from the bottom to the top of the frame to accommodate this placement.) Such manipulations could be seen as mannered, but I think it works to suggest that the lives of the characters themselves have been placed somewhere slightly off-center.

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'Ida,' directed by Pawel Pawlikowski

Movie, 2013 A simple story with a small cast of characters, revolving around a convent girl about to take her vows, and her family’s intervention, in the shape of a hedonistic aunt. Their exploits outside the convent are part family history investigation, part road movie and part coming of age drama. The familiar themes and big dramatic tensions are taken and played beautifully in black and…

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Croiser ta voix c'est entendre, au loin, un ruisseau. C'est aller y chercher de l'eau, t'en donner. Et seulement du bout des doigts, connaître la soif.

Thierry Metz, Lettres à la bien-aimée

Agata Trzebuchowska : Ida (2013) dir. Pawel Pawlikowski

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Agata Trzebuchowska | Photo: Łukasz Bąk (M&S) - Match and Spark

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Ida (2014) | dir. Paweł Pawlikowski

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Ida

(2013) - Agata Trzebuchowska, Agata Kulesza, David Ogrodnik. dir. Pawel Pawlikowski (Poland)

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Фильмы

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Carol 2015 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2402927/

Свет в ��кеане (The Light Between Oceans) 2016 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2547584/

Белая королева (1 сезон 1,2,3 серии) 2013 https://www.kinopoisk.ru/series/723644/

Ида

Мой король (2015) https://www.kinopoisk.ru/film/821508

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Ida, 2013