Following the October parliamentary election that saw the defeat of the right-wing Law and Justice party and appointment of leader of the opposition party Donald Tusk as prime minister, Polish filmmakers are cautiously readying for change.
“So far, our cinema authorities have not changed. It remains to be seen whether they will change their approach to funding more topical or controversial projects. Recent years have been very difficult in this regard,” says acclaimed director Agnieszka Holland.
Holland’s latest film, refugee drama “Green Border,” had been attacked by the right-wing government last year. Her next film, “Franz,” about Franz Kafka, is a Czech-German-Polish co-production to be sold at EFM by Films Boutique.
“We know everything and nothing about Kafka. There are dozens of detailed biographies and the reasons for his growing importance remain a mystery. I am trying to put this film together like a scattered jigsaw puzzle,” she adds.
“So far, our cinema authorities have not changed. It remains to be seen whether they will change their approach to funding more topical or controversial projects. Recent years have been very difficult in this regard,” says acclaimed director Agnieszka Holland.
Holland’s latest film, refugee drama “Green Border,” had been attacked by the right-wing government last year. Her next film, “Franz,” about Franz Kafka, is a Czech-German-Polish co-production to be sold at EFM by Films Boutique.
“We know everything and nothing about Kafka. There are dozens of detailed biographies and the reasons for his growing importance remain a mystery. I am trying to put this film together like a scattered jigsaw puzzle,” she adds.
- 2/17/2024
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
Berlin-based sales agency Films Boutique has closed multiple territory deals on Agnieszka Holland’s “The Green Border,” which just completed principal photography in Poland.
The film has been sold to Condor (France), September Films (Benelux), Movies Inspired (Italy), Leopardo Filmes (Portugal), McF Megacom (former Yugoslavia), Kino Swiat (Poland) and Aqs (Czech Rep./Slovakia).
“The Green Border” tells the story of a family of Syrian refugees, a solitary English teacher from Afghanistan and a young border guard, all of whom meet on the Polish-Belarusian border during the most recent humanitarian crisis triggered by Belarus’ president Alexander Lukashenko, who opened the country’s doors to migrants as a back door to enter the EU.
The screenplay, penned by Holland, Gabriela Łazarkiewicz-Sieczko and Maciej Pisuk, is inspired by real events. Research for the film included hundreds of hours of document analysis, interviews with refugees, border guards, borderland residents, activists and experts.
A co-production between Poland,...
The film has been sold to Condor (France), September Films (Benelux), Movies Inspired (Italy), Leopardo Filmes (Portugal), McF Megacom (former Yugoslavia), Kino Swiat (Poland) and Aqs (Czech Rep./Slovakia).
“The Green Border” tells the story of a family of Syrian refugees, a solitary English teacher from Afghanistan and a young border guard, all of whom meet on the Polish-Belarusian border during the most recent humanitarian crisis triggered by Belarus’ president Alexander Lukashenko, who opened the country’s doors to migrants as a back door to enter the EU.
The screenplay, penned by Holland, Gabriela Łazarkiewicz-Sieczko and Maciej Pisuk, is inspired by real events. Research for the film included hundreds of hours of document analysis, interviews with refugees, border guards, borderland residents, activists and experts.
A co-production between Poland,...
- 5/18/2023
- by Leo Barraclough and Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Rolling off a successful collaboration on “Charlatan,” Films Boutique has boarded Agnieszka Holland’s next film “The Green Border,” which just completed principal photography in Poland.
Now in post production, “The Green Border” tells the fateful story of a family of Syrian refugees, a solitary English teacher from Afghanistan and a young border guard, all of whom meet on the Polish-Belarusian border during the most recent humanitarian crisis triggered by President Lukaschenko opening doors to migrants in Belarus as a back door to enter the EU.
The screenplay, penned by Holland, Gabriela Łazarkiewicz-Sieczko and Maciej Pisuk, is inspired by real events. Research for the film included hundreds of hours of document analysis, interviews with refugees, border guards, borderland residents, activists and experts.
A co-production between Poland, France, Belgium and the Czech Republic, “The Green Border” is produced by Marcin Wierzchosławski (Metro Films), Fred Bernstein (Astute Films) and Holland. Co-producers are Maria Blicharska,...
Now in post production, “The Green Border” tells the fateful story of a family of Syrian refugees, a solitary English teacher from Afghanistan and a young border guard, all of whom meet on the Polish-Belarusian border during the most recent humanitarian crisis triggered by President Lukaschenko opening doors to migrants in Belarus as a back door to enter the EU.
The screenplay, penned by Holland, Gabriela Łazarkiewicz-Sieczko and Maciej Pisuk, is inspired by real events. Research for the film included hundreds of hours of document analysis, interviews with refugees, border guards, borderland residents, activists and experts.
A co-production between Poland, France, Belgium and the Czech Republic, “The Green Border” is produced by Marcin Wierzchosławski (Metro Films), Fred Bernstein (Astute Films) and Holland. Co-producers are Maria Blicharska,...
- 5/10/2023
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Cast includes ‘A Clockwork Orange’ star Malcolm McDowell and Morgane Polański.
UK sales, production and distribution outfit Signature Entertainment has boarded global sales for Second World War spy thriller The Partisan, with a cast including French-Polish Vikings star Morgane Polański and A Clockwork Orange actor Malcolm McDowell.
Sales are launching at this month’s Cannes.
UK filmmaker James Marquand directs. His previous credits include Edinburgh International Film Festival premiere Dead Man’s Cards.
The title, currently in production in France, is Inspired by the true story of Krystyna Skarbek (Polański), a Polish spy working for the British behind enemy lines during the Second World War.
UK sales, production and distribution outfit Signature Entertainment has boarded global sales for Second World War spy thriller The Partisan, with a cast including French-Polish Vikings star Morgane Polański and A Clockwork Orange actor Malcolm McDowell.
Sales are launching at this month’s Cannes.
UK filmmaker James Marquand directs. His previous credits include Edinburgh International Film Festival premiere Dead Man’s Cards.
The title, currently in production in France, is Inspired by the true story of Krystyna Skarbek (Polański), a Polish spy working for the British behind enemy lines during the Second World War.
- 5/3/2023
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Never Gonna Snow Again (?niegu ju? nigdy nie b?dzie) Kino Lorber Reviewed for Shockya.com & BigAppleReviews.net linked from Rotten Tomatoes by: Harvey Karten Director: Malgorzata Szumowska. Co-director: Michal Englert Writer: Michal Englert, Malgorzata Szumowska Cast: Alec Utgoff, Maja Ostaszewska, Agata Kulesza Weronika Rosati, Katarzyna Figura,Andrzej Chyra, Lukasz Simlat Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 7/16/21 Opens: […]
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- 7/25/2021
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
"I heard you had great abilities, sir." Kino Lorber has released an official US trailer for the strange Polish drama Never Gonna Snow Again, which first premiered at the Venice Film Festival this year. We ran a teaser and a full trailer last year in the fall. On a gray, foggy morning outside a large Polish city, a masseur apparently from Ukraine named Zhenia enters the lives of the wealthy residents of a gated community. With his hypnotic presence and quasi-magical abilities, he is able to get a residence permit and starts plying his trade. The well-to-do residents in their own cookie-cutter suburban homes seemingly have it all, but they all suffer from an inner sadness, some unexplained longing. The attractive and mysterious newcomer's hands heal, and Zhenia’s eyes seem to penetrate their souls. Starring Alec Utgoff, Maja Ostaszewska, Agata Kulesza, Weronika Rosati, Katarzyna Figura. I'd say that comparison...
- 6/17/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
“Never Gonna Snow Again,” which was chosen as Poland’s Oscar submission prior to its world premiere in Venice, marks a further step in cinematographer Michał Englert’s long collaboration with Małgorzata Szumowska. It started in the 1990s with her short “Silence,” followed by her feature debut “Happy Man” in 2000, and continues with “Never Gonna Snow Again,” with Englert serving as both cinematographer and co-director, alongside Szumowska, on the film.
“Our way of working, or our sense of humor, hasn’t really changed. Although the scope of my involvement is constantly expanding,” says Englert, who has been developing screenplays with Szumowska since 2013’s “In the Name Of,” and describes their process as “instinctive.”
“I definitely have an ego, but you can’t make movies all by yourself and in the case of ‘Never Gonna Snow Again’ we decided its power will be bigger if we sign it as a directorial duo.
“Our way of working, or our sense of humor, hasn’t really changed. Although the scope of my involvement is constantly expanding,” says Englert, who has been developing screenplays with Szumowska since 2013’s “In the Name Of,” and describes their process as “instinctive.”
“I definitely have an ego, but you can’t make movies all by yourself and in the case of ‘Never Gonna Snow Again’ we decided its power will be bigger if we sign it as a directorial duo.
- 11/15/2020
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
As the title suggests, the arrival of snow seems to blanket all discord, unite people in wonder and instill a momentary pause for reflection. The idea of snow never settling again seems unimaginable, even doleful. In Polish co-directors Malgorzata Szumowska and Michal Englert’s hypnotic new drama, Never Gonna Snow Again, with its twinkles of humour scattered throughout, the title also points to the background of the film’s mysterious lead character, a ‘healing’ masseur called Zhenia (Stranger Things actor Alec Utgoff) who we see at the start making the journey from the Ukraine into Poland.
Flashbacks suggest he is a child of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident, which saw radioactive dust fall from the sky like snow as a result. In searching for a new life in the West, Zhenia can put this troubled past to rest, hoping never to see fake snow falling again, and put his remarkable healing hands to more prosperous use.
Flashbacks suggest he is a child of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident, which saw radioactive dust fall from the sky like snow as a result. In searching for a new life in the West, Zhenia can put this troubled past to rest, hoping never to see fake snow falling again, and put his remarkable healing hands to more prosperous use.
- 10/23/2020
- by Lisa Giles-Keddie
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Malgorzata Szumowska and Michal Englert’s “Never Gonna Snow Again,” one of the buzziest titles out of the Venice Film Festival, has found distribution in the U.K., Italy and Germany.
Following what’s understood to have been a competitive process with wide interest, Picturehouse Entertainment has swooped for U.K./Eire rights. I Wonder has bought the film for Italy, and Real Fiction are on board for Germany. The film is sold internationally by The Match Factory.
“Never Gonna Snow Again” world premiered in Venice on Sept. 7 to critical acclaim. The film tells the story of masseur Zhenia, who hails from the Ukrainian city of Pripyat, which was deeply affected by the nearby Chernobyl blast. Zhenia enters the lives of the rich but troubled residents of a bland, walled-off community in Poland, where he begins to heal them with his hands and companionship, and changes their lives for good.
Following what’s understood to have been a competitive process with wide interest, Picturehouse Entertainment has swooped for U.K./Eire rights. I Wonder has bought the film for Italy, and Real Fiction are on board for Germany. The film is sold internationally by The Match Factory.
“Never Gonna Snow Again” world premiered in Venice on Sept. 7 to critical acclaim. The film tells the story of masseur Zhenia, who hails from the Ukrainian city of Pripyat, which was deeply affected by the nearby Chernobyl blast. Zhenia enters the lives of the rich but troubled residents of a bland, walled-off community in Poland, where he begins to heal them with his hands and companionship, and changes their lives for good.
- 9/9/2020
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
How much healing can a good massage provide? A fast-fading hour or so of relaxation, or a more sustained sense of general well-being and peace with the world, so long as it’s topped up with repeat appointments? In “Never Gonna Snow Again,” a searching, cryptic satire of bourgeois insularity in modern Poland, the magic hands of an immigrant Ukrainian masseur are tasked with easing a litany of woes, from middle-class guilt to climate change anxiety to terminal cancer — though no one thinks to ask him about his own interior aches and pains. After last year’s moody but mildly received English-language diversion “The Other Lamb,” prolific Polish auteur Malgorzata Szumowska returns to home turf in this Venice competition entry, and the result is her most compelling and hauntingly realized film to date.
With a run of variously provocative, distinctively styled films through the 2010s — including the Juliette Binoche starrer...
With a run of variously provocative, distinctively styled films through the 2010s — including the Juliette Binoche starrer...
- 9/7/2020
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
Poland has officially kicked off the 2021 Best International Feature Film Oscar race by submitting Malgorzata Szumowska‘s “Never Gonna Snow Again.” The comedy-drama hybrid will premiere in competition at this year’s Venice Film Festival. The Italian-held event is the first major overseas fest to take place during the coronavirus pandemic, with dates spanning Sept. 2-12.
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the 93rd Academy Awards will take place on April 25 — the latest date for the telecast since the show was first broadcast on TV in 1953. The submission deadline for international features has also been delayed, pushed back to December 1 from the usual October 1. Earlier this year, South Korea’s “Parasite” won the newly renamed Foreign Language Film trophy and also became the first non-English-language film to win Best Picture.
See Glory to the holy WiFi! 7 ways ‘Parasite’ made history with its Oscar wins
“Never Gonna Snow Again” stars Alec Utgoff...
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the 93rd Academy Awards will take place on April 25 — the latest date for the telecast since the show was first broadcast on TV in 1953. The submission deadline for international features has also been delayed, pushed back to December 1 from the usual October 1. Earlier this year, South Korea’s “Parasite” won the newly renamed Foreign Language Film trophy and also became the first non-English-language film to win Best Picture.
See Glory to the holy WiFi! 7 ways ‘Parasite’ made history with its Oscar wins
“Never Gonna Snow Again” stars Alec Utgoff...
- 8/10/2020
- by Susan Wloszczyna
- Gold Derby
In today’s Global Bulletin, Poland makes its Oscars pick, Vis gets a new VP, Transilvania closes its ceremonies, the Barbican plans to reopen its doors, BlackBox Multimedia supports suicide prevention Npo Calm, and Studio 100 readies “SeaBelievers” for Mipcom.
Oscars
Poland has submitted Malgorzata Szumowska’s “Never Gonna Snow Again” as the country’s 2021 Oscar submission, making it the first country out the gate in this year’s Academy Awards race.
Set to premiere in competition at the Venice Film Festival, the comedy stars “Stranger Things” alum Alec Utgoff and “Ida” actress Agata Kulesza in the story of a Ukrainian masseuse in Poland who rises to cult-like status among wealthy clientele amassed while working in a gated community.
Szumowska, Polish cinematic royalty with several Berlin, European Film and Locarno awards — to list just a few — to her name, co-wrote the script with long-time collaborator Michal Englert. The two also produce along with Lava Films,...
Oscars
Poland has submitted Malgorzata Szumowska’s “Never Gonna Snow Again” as the country’s 2021 Oscar submission, making it the first country out the gate in this year’s Academy Awards race.
Set to premiere in competition at the Venice Film Festival, the comedy stars “Stranger Things” alum Alec Utgoff and “Ida” actress Agata Kulesza in the story of a Ukrainian masseuse in Poland who rises to cult-like status among wealthy clientele amassed while working in a gated community.
Szumowska, Polish cinematic royalty with several Berlin, European Film and Locarno awards — to list just a few — to her name, co-wrote the script with long-time collaborator Michal Englert. The two also produce along with Lava Films,...
- 8/10/2020
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: And they’re off! Poland is first out of the blocks this year by naming its submission to the 2021 International Oscar race – Malgorzata Szumowska’s Never Gonna Snow Again.
The comedy drama is set to premiere in Competition at this year’s Venice Film Festival. The Italian event is pressing on with plans to become the first major international fest to take place in the pandemic era, running September 2-12.
Szumowska has become one of Poland’s most recognized working directors since her 2001 feature debut Happy Man. Her credits include 2013 pic In The Name Of, which won prizes at the Berlin and Polish film festivals, the 2015 feature Body which won its director the Berlinale Silver Bear for Best Director and also the European Film Awards’ People’s Choice Award, and 2018 movie Mug, which again was a Berlinale winner, this time the Silver Bear Jury Grand Prix. Szumowska’s English-language debut,...
The comedy drama is set to premiere in Competition at this year’s Venice Film Festival. The Italian event is pressing on with plans to become the first major international fest to take place in the pandemic era, running September 2-12.
Szumowska has become one of Poland’s most recognized working directors since her 2001 feature debut Happy Man. Her credits include 2013 pic In The Name Of, which won prizes at the Berlin and Polish film festivals, the 2015 feature Body which won its director the Berlinale Silver Bear for Best Director and also the European Film Awards’ People’s Choice Award, and 2018 movie Mug, which again was a Berlinale winner, this time the Silver Bear Jury Grand Prix. Szumowska’s English-language debut,...
- 8/10/2020
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Poland is the first out of the gate for the 2021 international Oscar race, naming Never Gonna Snow Again from director Malgorzata Szumowska as its national contender for next year's Academy Awards.
Szumowska's latest comedic drama will have its world premiere in competition at the Venice International Film Festival in September.
Stranger Things actor Alec Utgoff stars, alongside Ida actress Agata Kulesza, in the story of a Ukrainian migrant working as a masseur in Poland who becomes a guru-like figure in the gated community where his clients live.
Szumowska's reputation as one of Poland's most acclaimed directors has grown ...
Szumowska's latest comedic drama will have its world premiere in competition at the Venice International Film Festival in September.
Stranger Things actor Alec Utgoff stars, alongside Ida actress Agata Kulesza, in the story of a Ukrainian migrant working as a masseur in Poland who becomes a guru-like figure in the gated community where his clients live.
Szumowska's reputation as one of Poland's most acclaimed directors has grown ...
- 8/10/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Poland is the first out of the gate for the 2021 international Oscar race, naming Never Gonna Snow Again from director Malgorzata Szumowska as its national contender for next year's Academy Awards.
Szumowska's latest comedic drama will have its world premiere in competition at the Venice International Film Festival in September.
Stranger Things actor Alec Utgoff stars, alongside Ida actress Agata Kulesza, in the story of a Ukrainian migrant working as a masseur in Poland who becomes a guru-like figure in the gated community where his clients live.
Szumowska's reputation as one of Poland's most acclaimed directors has grown ...
Szumowska's latest comedic drama will have its world premiere in competition at the Venice International Film Festival in September.
Stranger Things actor Alec Utgoff stars, alongside Ida actress Agata Kulesza, in the story of a Ukrainian migrant working as a masseur in Poland who becomes a guru-like figure in the gated community where his clients live.
Szumowska's reputation as one of Poland's most acclaimed directors has grown ...
- 8/10/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Reteaming provocative Polish director Jan Komasa with screenwriter Mateusz Pacewicz, “The Hater” hits Netflix mere months after the duo’s acclaimed impostor-priest drama “Corpus Christi” was nominated for the Oscars’ newly rechristened international feature award. Timing wise, that’s a savvy acquisition of a youth-targeted thriller that deals with such topics as ethics, elections and online obsession, further boosted by the movie’s recent win at the Tribeca Film Festival — the event may have been canceled by the coronavirus, but the jury still voted, picking “The Hater” as the best of its international competition.
Such bona fides may inspire the streams for this . But Netflix has oddly omitted one key detail: “The Hater” is a sequel to Komasa’s 2011 button-pusher “Suicide Room.”
In that film, a game of truth or dare inspires a popular high school kid to kiss another guy, an act that’s caught on camera and shared online,...
Such bona fides may inspire the streams for this . But Netflix has oddly omitted one key detail: “The Hater” is a sequel to Komasa’s 2011 button-pusher “Suicide Room.”
In that film, a game of truth or dare inspires a popular high school kid to kiss another guy, an act that’s caught on camera and shared online,...
- 7/14/2020
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
Netflix has taken world rights to Polish director Jan Komasa’s The Hater, which won Best International Narrative Feature at this year’s digital Tribeca Film Festival.
Komasa is the director of the 2020 Oscar-nominated Polish feature Corpus Christi. His previous projects include Suicide Room, Warsaw Uprising and Warsaw 44.
His latest feature, written by Mateusz Pacewicz, follows a disgraced law student who desperately tries to get the attention of childhood friend and the respect of her progressive family. Taking a job at a high-profile but amoral PR company to impress her, he soon finds that he excels at the dirty political games that he is asked to orchestrate on social media, but there’s a human price to his meddling.
Netflix will release online in July, aside from Poland where it will hold until March 2021 due to the required theatrical window following its local cinema release via distributor Kino Swiat.
Komasa is the director of the 2020 Oscar-nominated Polish feature Corpus Christi. His previous projects include Suicide Room, Warsaw Uprising and Warsaw 44.
His latest feature, written by Mateusz Pacewicz, follows a disgraced law student who desperately tries to get the attention of childhood friend and the respect of her progressive family. Taking a job at a high-profile but amoral PR company to impress her, he soon finds that he excels at the dirty political games that he is asked to orchestrate on social media, but there’s a human price to his meddling.
Netflix will release online in July, aside from Poland where it will hold until March 2021 due to the required theatrical window following its local cinema release via distributor Kino Swiat.
- 5/14/2020
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
"Join us, we need young people." Screen has released the first official promo trailer for The Hater, a new Polish film opening in cinemas in Poland this week. The Hater (aka Hejter) is the latest feature from Polish filmmaker Jan Komasa, whose sleeper hit Corpus Christi was nominated for the Best International Film Oscar earlier this year. It revolves around Tomek, who is obsessed with Gabi and her rich family. After he is kicked out of law school for plagiarism, he lands a job at a marketing agency and is tasked with destroying the reputation of a liberal politician. He grows even closer to Gabi until his past is revealed. Starring Maciej Musiałowski, Vanessa Alexander, Maciej Stuhr, Agata Kulesza, Danuta Stenka, Jacek Koman. The film is premiering in the Us at the Tribeca Film Festival next month. Seems like a searing commentary on how the internet fuels hate. It almost...
- 3/6/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
The film is shooting in and around Warsaw and stars Stranger Things’ Alec Utgoff. Principal photography has commenced on Malgorzata Szumowska’s Wonder Zenia on location in and around Warsaw. The film stars Alec Utgoff in the title role, alongside Agata Kulesza, Maja Ostaszewska (Body), Weronika Rosati and Katarzyna Figura. "I’m really excited to work on this project with Malgo,” said Alec Utgoff. “Her passion and persistence are what attracted me most. I saw her most recent film — The Other Lamb — so beautifully shot and directed. I think this film is going to be striking and original, a real eye opener for audiences.” The screenplay is by Szumowska and her regular writing collaborator (and cinematographer) Michal Englert. The film tells the story of Zenia, an industrious Ukrainian migrant worker in Poland. Zenia works as a masseur who makes house calls...
- 12/18/2019
- Cineuropa - The Best of European Cinema
Malgorzata Szumowska, best director winner at the Berlin Film Festival for “Body,” has started shooting “Wonder Zenia,” starring “Stranger Things” actor Alec Utgoff, on location in and around Warsaw.
Utgoff, who played Alexei in the third season of Netflix’s “Stranger Things” and also appeared in “Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit,” stars in the title role in “Wonder Zenia.” The film also stars Agata Kulesza, who played “Red Wanda” in Oscar-winner “Ida,” Maja Ostaszewska (“Body”), Weronika Rosati and Katarzyna Figura.
Zenia, the film’s protagonist, is an industrious Ukrainian migrant worker in Poland who makes house calls as a masseur to the needy and aspirational residents of a middle-class gated community near Warsaw. He is privy to all of their problems, anxieties and secrets – and something of an unwitting guru figure. Zenia’s grounded spirituality, apparent healing powers and broad shoulders make him an object of lust for many of the lost souls in the community.
Utgoff, who played Alexei in the third season of Netflix’s “Stranger Things” and also appeared in “Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit,” stars in the title role in “Wonder Zenia.” The film also stars Agata Kulesza, who played “Red Wanda” in Oscar-winner “Ida,” Maja Ostaszewska (“Body”), Weronika Rosati and Katarzyna Figura.
Zenia, the film’s protagonist, is an industrious Ukrainian migrant worker in Poland who makes house calls as a masseur to the needy and aspirational residents of a middle-class gated community near Warsaw. He is privy to all of their problems, anxieties and secrets – and something of an unwitting guru figure. Zenia’s grounded spirituality, apparent healing powers and broad shoulders make him an object of lust for many of the lost souls in the community.
- 12/16/2019
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Picturehouse adds to recent buying spree.
Picturehouse Entertainment has taken UK rights to Inna De Yard, Peter Webber’s documentary featuring several legendary voices of reggae.
Paris-based outfit Charades is handling sales on the title at this week’s European Film Market in Berlin. The film had its market premiere screening yesterday (Feb 8).
Director Webber’s credits include Girl With A Pearl Earring, which was nominated for three Oscars. For Inna De Yard, he followed reggae legends Ken Boothe, Winston McAnuff, Kiddus I and Cedric Myron as they reunite to revisit their staple songs and record an unplugged album in Jamaica.
Picturehouse Entertainment has taken UK rights to Inna De Yard, Peter Webber’s documentary featuring several legendary voices of reggae.
Paris-based outfit Charades is handling sales on the title at this week’s European Film Market in Berlin. The film had its market premiere screening yesterday (Feb 8).
Director Webber’s credits include Girl With A Pearl Earring, which was nominated for three Oscars. For Inna De Yard, he followed reggae legends Ken Boothe, Winston McAnuff, Kiddus I and Cedric Myron as they reunite to revisit their staple songs and record an unplugged album in Jamaica.
- 2/9/2019
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Polish actor Andrzej Chyra and Israeli actress Evgenia Dodina also star.
Agata Kulesza, who rose to international prominence after her role in Pawel Pawlikowski’s Oscar-winning drama Ida and also appeared in his Cold War, has boarded the cast of Aleksandr Mindadze upcoming drama Parquet.
Kulesza stars alongside Andrzej Chyra, whose credits include 2013 Berlinale Competition selection In The Name Of, and Evgenia Dodina, whose credits include 2016 Cannes Critics’ Week title One Week And A Day.
The film is the story of three dancers, the creators of the tango à trois, who reunite for an encore performance 25 years after breaking up.
Agata Kulesza, who rose to international prominence after her role in Pawel Pawlikowski’s Oscar-winning drama Ida and also appeared in his Cold War, has boarded the cast of Aleksandr Mindadze upcoming drama Parquet.
Kulesza stars alongside Andrzej Chyra, whose credits include 2013 Berlinale Competition selection In The Name Of, and Evgenia Dodina, whose credits include 2016 Cannes Critics’ Week title One Week And A Day.
The film is the story of three dancers, the creators of the tango à trois, who reunite for an encore performance 25 years after breaking up.
- 2/8/2019
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Joanna Kulig as Zula in Pawel Pawlikowski’s Cold War. Photo courtesy of Amazon Studios (c)
The Oscar-nominated Cold War is a brilliant, beautiful film about a passionate romance between two mismatched people, set against the backdrop of communist Poland and the Cold War. Shot in gorgeous black and white, director Pawel Pawlikowski’s Polish-language drama traces the ill-fated, incendiary love affair of two musicians through fifteen years, from their meeting in 1949 communist Poland through the decay of Polish communism throughout the Cold War, as the couple cross back and forth over what was called the Iron Curtain. The story is inspired by the director’s own parents, with the characters sharing their names.
Cold War is a compelling romantic drama is full of tragic twists of fate and history, about two people of differing background and personality yet bound by irresistible attraction, all further complicated by the impossible situation...
The Oscar-nominated Cold War is a brilliant, beautiful film about a passionate romance between two mismatched people, set against the backdrop of communist Poland and the Cold War. Shot in gorgeous black and white, director Pawel Pawlikowski’s Polish-language drama traces the ill-fated, incendiary love affair of two musicians through fifteen years, from their meeting in 1949 communist Poland through the decay of Polish communism throughout the Cold War, as the couple cross back and forth over what was called the Iron Curtain. The story is inspired by the director’s own parents, with the characters sharing their names.
Cold War is a compelling romantic drama is full of tragic twists of fate and history, about two people of differing background and personality yet bound by irresistible attraction, all further complicated by the impossible situation...
- 1/25/2019
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Cold War Trailer and Clips Pawel Pawlikowski’s Cold War / Zimna wojna (2018) movie trailers and movie clips star Tomasz Kot, Joanna Kulig, Borys Szyc, Agata Kulesza, and Cédric Kahn. Cold War‘s plot synopsis: “Cold War is a passionate love story between two people of different backgrounds and temperaments, who are fatally mismatched and [...]
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Continue reading: Cold War (2018) Movie Trailers & Clips: Joanna Kulig & Tomasz Kot’s Love Condemns Them During War...
- 1/5/2019
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
"Pawlikowski is a peerless dramatist." Amazon Studios has debuted another trailer for the award-winning Polish film Cold War (or Zimna Wojna), which first premiered at the Cannes Film Festival last year. The film is expected to get a Best Foreign Language Film nomination at the Oscars, and possibly win as well. Cold War is the latest from acclaimed Polish filmmaker Pawel Pawlikowski and he also won Best Director in Cannes. It's about a passionate love story between two people, who are fatefully mismatched. Wiktor, played by Tomasz Kot, falls for Zula, played by Joanna Kulig, and they spend years drifting together and apart. Set in Europe against the background of the Cold War in the 1950s. The cast includes Borys Szyc, Agata Kulesza, Cèdric Kahn, and Jeanne Balibar. It also has gorgeous B&W cinematography by Dp Lukasz Zal. The film is already out in theaters - certainly worthy of your time.
- 1/4/2019
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Forget the frosty title — there’s enough sizzling carnality in Cold War to the singe the screen. Polish director Pawel Pawlikowski, whose 2013 film Ida won the Oscar as Best Foreign-Language Film, shoots in a gorgeous black-and-white of harsh contrasts and in harsher climates. Set in 1950s Poland — and detouring through Berlin, Yugoslavia and Paris, all against a background of political turmoil — it’s the story of two Polish musicians: Zula (played with raw incandescence by Joanna Kulig), who dreams of being a singer; and Wiktor (a dynamic Tomasz Kot), a...
- 12/19/2018
- by Peter Travers
- Rollingstone.com
Cold War (Zimna wajna) Amazon Studios Reviewed by: Harvey Karten Director: Pawel Pawlikowski Screenwriter: Pawel Pawlikowski, Janusz Glowacki Cast: Joanna Kulig, Tomasz Kot, Borys Szyc, Agata Kulesza, Cédric Kahn Screened at: Soho, NYC, 10/25/18 Opens: December 21, 2018 In “Meet Me in Saint Louis” Judy Garland sings: “How can I ignore, the boy next door, […]
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- 12/16/2018
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
AFI Fest has added another world premiere to its slate: “I Am the Night,” the upcoming limited series from “Wonder Woman” director Patty Jenkins. Following the true-life story of a woman named Fauna Hodel who was given away at birth and began looking into her own past as a teenager, it joins Chuck Lorre’s “The Kominsky Method” as the Hollywood festival’s only TV programming. Chris Pine and India Eisley star in the limited series from TNT.
AFI Fest has also announced its Special Screenings, Cinema’s Legacy, and Midnight lineups; among the most buzzed-about selections are Alfonso Cuarón’s “Roma,” Yorgos Lanthimos’ “The Favourite,” “Brady Corbet’s “Vox Lux,” David Robert Mitchell’s “Under the Silver Lake,” and Paweł Pawlikowski’s “Cold War.”
This year’s festival runs from November 8–15. Here are all the newly announced titles, with official synopses straight from the festival:
Special Screenings
The Cold...
AFI Fest has also announced its Special Screenings, Cinema’s Legacy, and Midnight lineups; among the most buzzed-about selections are Alfonso Cuarón’s “Roma,” Yorgos Lanthimos’ “The Favourite,” “Brady Corbet’s “Vox Lux,” David Robert Mitchell’s “Under the Silver Lake,” and Paweł Pawlikowski’s “Cold War.”
This year’s festival runs from November 8–15. Here are all the newly announced titles, with official synopses straight from the festival:
Special Screenings
The Cold...
- 10/18/2018
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
"A faultless romantic epic." Amazon Studios has debuted the official Us trailer for the award-winning Polish film Cold War (or Zimna Wojna), which first premiered at the Cannes Film Festival this May. Cold War is the latest from acclaimed Polish filmmaker Pawel Pawlikowski and he also won Best Director in Cannes. The film is about a passionate love story between two people, who are fatefully mismatched. Wiktor, played by Tomasz Kot, falls for Zula, played by Joanna Kulig, and they spend years drifting together and apart. Set against the background of the Cold War in the 1950s. The cast also includes Borys Szyc, Agata Kulesza, Cèdric Kahn, and Jeanne Balibar. The two leads are stupendous, some of the best performances all year, enhanced by gorgeous B&W shots by Pawlikowski's Dp Lukasz Zal. This is definitely going to end up nominated at the Oscars this year, and it's worth seeing in theaters when it opens.
- 10/5/2018
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
"A faultless romantic epic." Curzon Artificial Eye has revealed an official UK trailer for the award-winning Polish film Cold War (or Zimna Wojna), which first premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in competition this May. Cold War is the latest from acclaimed Polish filmmaker Pawel Pawlikowski and he also won Best Director in Cannes. The film is about a passionate love story between two people, who are fatefully mismatched. Wiktor, played by Tomasz Kot, falls for Zula, played by Joanna Kulig, and they spend years drifting together and apart. Set against the background of the Cold War in the 1950s. The cast includes Borys Szyc, Agata Kulesza, Cèdric Kahn, and Jeanne Balibar. The two leads are stupendous, some of the best performances all year, enhanced by gorgeous B&W shots by Pawlikowski's Dp Lukasz Zal. This lovely trailer provides a preview of some of the mesmerizing jazz music from the film.
- 7/15/2018
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Five years since his previous Oscar-winning drama Ida, Paweł Pawlikowski now makes a stunning return with his latest romantic drama Cold War. The film initially premiered at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year. Opening to high praise, it found itself at the top of many “best of Cannes” lists (including our own). Even more remarkable is Pawlikowski’s direction on the film, which garnished him the Best Director award at the festival. Courtesy of Film4, we now have the U.K. trailer for Cold War.
Set in the 1950s in Poland, Berlin, Yugoslavia, and Paris, Cold War centers on Zula (played by Joanna Kulig) and Wiktor (played by Tomasz Kot), a young couple who find themselves to be “fatefully mismatched” with one another. Over the course of nearly two decades, the film explores the intricacies of their relationship – all while the political pressures of the Cold War are felt within the background.
Set in the 1950s in Poland, Berlin, Yugoslavia, and Paris, Cold War centers on Zula (played by Joanna Kulig) and Wiktor (played by Tomasz Kot), a young couple who find themselves to be “fatefully mismatched” with one another. Over the course of nearly two decades, the film explores the intricacies of their relationship – all while the political pressures of the Cold War are felt within the background.
- 7/14/2018
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
Exclusive: Amazon Studios will release Pawel Pawlikowski’s Cold War in limited theaters on Dec 21.
The pic which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival won Pawlikowski best director there and also earned rave reviews putting its current Rotten Tomatoes score at 100%. Previously, Pawlikowski won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language in 2015 for the film Ida.
Cold War is a passionate love story between two people of different backgrounds and temperaments, who are fatally mismatched, set against the background of the Cold War in the 1950s in Poland, Berlin, Yugoslavia and Paris. The romantic leads in the movie are named after the director’s own parents. Joanna Kulig, Tomasz Kot, Borys Szyc, and Agata Kulesza star. Producers are Tanya Seghatchian and Ewa Puszczyńska.
Cold War opened last weekend in Poland. While it has not been determined yet if the movie will be Poland’s official Oscar entry this year, Amazon...
The pic which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival won Pawlikowski best director there and also earned rave reviews putting its current Rotten Tomatoes score at 100%. Previously, Pawlikowski won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language in 2015 for the film Ida.
Cold War is a passionate love story between two people of different backgrounds and temperaments, who are fatally mismatched, set against the background of the Cold War in the 1950s in Poland, Berlin, Yugoslavia and Paris. The romantic leads in the movie are named after the director’s own parents. Joanna Kulig, Tomasz Kot, Borys Szyc, and Agata Kulesza star. Producers are Tanya Seghatchian and Ewa Puszczyńska.
Cold War opened last weekend in Poland. While it has not been determined yet if the movie will be Poland’s official Oscar entry this year, Amazon...
- 6/14/2018
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Oscar-winning director Pawel Pawlikowski's black-and-white film Cold War will open the 24th edition of the Sarajevo Film Festival in August.
Pawlikowski will personally present the film, which recently won the best director honor at Cannes, and later talk to guests at the festival's popular "Coffee With …" public interview program.
The film, which attracted rave reviews from critics during Cannes, will screen simultaneously at the festival's opening ceremony in Sarajevo's National Theater and also at the large-capacity Raiffeisen Open Air Cinema.
Starring Tomasz Kot, Joanna Kulig, Agata Kulesza, Jeanne Balibar and Cedric Kahn, Cold ...
Pawlikowski will personally present the film, which recently won the best director honor at Cannes, and later talk to guests at the festival's popular "Coffee With …" public interview program.
The film, which attracted rave reviews from critics during Cannes, will screen simultaneously at the festival's opening ceremony in Sarajevo's National Theater and also at the large-capacity Raiffeisen Open Air Cinema.
Starring Tomasz Kot, Joanna Kulig, Agata Kulesza, Jeanne Balibar and Cedric Kahn, Cold ...
Oscar-winning director Pawel Pawlikowski's black-and-white film Cold War will open the 24th edition of the Sarajevo Film Festival in August.
Pawlikowski will personally present the film, which recently won the best director honor at Cannes, and later talk to guests at the festival's popular "Coffee With …" public interview program.
The film, which attracted rave reviews from critics during Cannes, will screen simultaneously at the festival's opening ceremony in Sarajevo's National Theater and also at the large-capacity Raiffeisen Open Air Cinema.
Starring Tomasz Kot, Joanna Kulig, Agata Kulesza, Jeanne Balibar and Cedric Kahn, Cold ...
Pawlikowski will personally present the film, which recently won the best director honor at Cannes, and later talk to guests at the festival's popular "Coffee With …" public interview program.
The film, which attracted rave reviews from critics during Cannes, will screen simultaneously at the festival's opening ceremony in Sarajevo's National Theater and also at the large-capacity Raiffeisen Open Air Cinema.
Starring Tomasz Kot, Joanna Kulig, Agata Kulesza, Jeanne Balibar and Cedric Kahn, Cold ...
Cannes ’18 Review by Peter BelsitoThe opening of Pawel Pawlikowski’s terrific, smoky-cool love story ‘Cold War’ gives you no clue to what lies ahead: Chickens. Snow. A country fiddler in a tattered tweed coat. Later, more chickens. Mud.Joanna Kulig
But this picture moves, like a silvery ghost, from the Polish countryside in 1949, to Warsaw and Berlin, to the nightclubs of Paris.
Partners in work and possibly in life as well, Wiktor and Irena are traveling the postwar Polish countryside, making recordings of regional singers and musicians. They’re putting together a troupe that will highlight the nation’s finest folk-art performers — when assembled, it will be a group of robust young men and women decked out in traditional Polish dress and performing peasant dances and sweet songs about embroidering shirts for their loved ones
A pouty blonde, Joanna Kulig’s Zula, shows up for one of the mass tryouts...
But this picture moves, like a silvery ghost, from the Polish countryside in 1949, to Warsaw and Berlin, to the nightclubs of Paris.
Partners in work and possibly in life as well, Wiktor and Irena are traveling the postwar Polish countryside, making recordings of regional singers and musicians. They’re putting together a troupe that will highlight the nation’s finest folk-art performers — when assembled, it will be a group of robust young men and women decked out in traditional Polish dress and performing peasant dances and sweet songs about embroidering shirts for their loved ones
A pouty blonde, Joanna Kulig’s Zula, shows up for one of the mass tryouts...
- 5/29/2018
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Well, there were great expectations for Pawel Pawlikowski’s follow-up after the beautiful and pluri-award-winning Ida (2013). To say he has satisfied them is an understatement. Cold War is a masterclass in filmmaking and is a reminder of what made many of us fall in love with cinema in the first place.
The story is about two musicians: Wiktor, who is a composer, pianist and debonair man about town (Tomasz Zot) and Zula (Joanna Kulig), who is a beautiful young singer with a complicated past. But not as complicated as their country’s recent past or present, for the action begins in Poland in 1949. Wiktor and his team, comprised of Irena (Agata Kulesza) and Kaczmarek (Borys Szyc), are touring the countryside looking for traditional folk songs to record. After glimpses of rural life that look more like something from Bruegel than the twentieth century, the team head to a country mansion...
The story is about two musicians: Wiktor, who is a composer, pianist and debonair man about town (Tomasz Zot) and Zula (Joanna Kulig), who is a beautiful young singer with a complicated past. But not as complicated as their country’s recent past or present, for the action begins in Poland in 1949. Wiktor and his team, comprised of Irena (Agata Kulesza) and Kaczmarek (Borys Szyc), are touring the countryside looking for traditional folk songs to record. After glimpses of rural life that look more like something from Bruegel than the twentieth century, the team head to a country mansion...
- 5/11/2018
- by Jo-Ann Titmarsh
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
There can be no prizes for guessing the historical milieu of Pawel Pawlikowski’s “Cold War,” a transfixing miniature that evokes the eponymous midcentury geopolitical freeze with all the intricate, delicate decay of the Polish auteur’s Oscar-winning “Ida.” But the cold war at the center of this restless, ellipsis-filled film is one between hearts, not territories: Skipping with swift agility across European borders and a 15-year timeframe, Pawlikowski sketches an intense long-term love affair between two mismatched Polish musicians whose relationship is defined less by affection than a mutual, mistrustful, latently violent hostility. Loosely inspired by the tempestuous marriage of the director’s late parents — for whom the principals are named, and to whom the film is mournfully dedicated — “Cold War” may return to “Ida’s” meticulous monochrome aesthetic of “Ida,” but it’s a companion piece with its own tonal and structural energy: less emotionally immediate, perhaps, but...
- 5/10/2018
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
"We have a suspect - a crime writer..." "I think the book is your confession." Saban Films has released an official trailer for a dark crime thriller titled, of course, Dark Crimes. The title is a variation of the title for the original article this is based on in the New Yorker, called "True Crime", subtitle "A postmodern murder mystery." Dark Crimes stars Jim Carrey as a detective who gets involved in a case where a Polish author killed someone in real life the same way as in one of the fictional crime novels he wrote. Marton Csokas plays the author, and the cast includes Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kati Outinen, Vlad Ivanov, Agata Kulesza, Robert Wieckiewicz, and Piotr Glowacki. This loos quite dark and mysterious, but also quite good, I'm intrigued. Especially by Carrey's fierce, bearded performance in this. I really want to check it out. Here's the official trailer (+ new...
- 4/11/2018
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Following up his Oscar-winning hit Ida, which earned nearly $4 million at the box-office here in the U.S. alone, director Pawel Pawlikowski has finally confirmed his next film. According to Variety, the drama is titled Cold War and it has found backing through MK2 Films and Protagonist Pictures.
After his gorgeous and haunting last film, the writer-director’s latest film is set in the 1950s during the Cold War and traverses multiple countries (Poland, Berlin, Yugoslavia and Paris) as it follows an “impossible love story in impossible times.” The script is also penned by Pawlikowski, and stars Ida‘s Agata Kulesza, Tomasz Kot, and Joanna Kulig. Mike Goodridge, CEO of Protagonist Pictures, said the following:
We are so excited to be working in tandem with our friends at MK2, a company we have long admired, and there is no better kickoff than this extraordinary new project from Pawel Pawlikowski. We...
After his gorgeous and haunting last film, the writer-director’s latest film is set in the 1950s during the Cold War and traverses multiple countries (Poland, Berlin, Yugoslavia and Paris) as it follows an “impossible love story in impossible times.” The script is also penned by Pawlikowski, and stars Ida‘s Agata Kulesza, Tomasz Kot, and Joanna Kulig. Mike Goodridge, CEO of Protagonist Pictures, said the following:
We are so excited to be working in tandem with our friends at MK2, a company we have long admired, and there is no better kickoff than this extraordinary new project from Pawel Pawlikowski. We...
- 2/9/2017
- by Mike Mazzanti
- The Film Stage
Two years after winning the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, “Ida” director Paweł Pawlikowski has begun work on his follow-up. “Cold War” is described by Deadline as a “passionate love story between two people of different backgrounds and temperaments — who are fatally mismatched yet fatefully condemned to one another” that takes place in 1950s Poland, Berlin, Yugoslavia and Paris.
Read More: Oscar-Nominated ‘Ida’ Director Pawel Pawlikowski On How He’s Surviving Awards Season
“Ida,” the first Polish film to win the foreign-language Oscar, also took home a BAFTA Award and was nominated for a Golden Globe (“Leviathan” won). Tomasz Kot, Joanna Kulig and Agata Kulesza (who was named Best Supporting Actress by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association for her role in “Ida”) all star in “Cold War,” about which little is currently known other than the premise.
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“Ida,” the first Polish film to win the foreign-language Oscar, also took home a BAFTA Award and was nominated for a Golden Globe (“Leviathan” won). Tomasz Kot, Joanna Kulig and Agata Kulesza (who was named Best Supporting Actress by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association for her role in “Ida”) all star in “Cold War,” about which little is currently known other than the premise.
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- 2/7/2017
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
Deadline reports that Paweł Pawlikowski, the Anglo-Polish director best known for his black-and-white drama Ida, has begun work on his next film, described as a love story ”set against the backdrop of the Cold War in 1950s Poland, Berlin, Yugoslavia and Paris.”
Pawlikowski, who immigrated to the UK in his teens, began his career with documentaries about the Eastern Bloc and English-language fiction films (My Summer Of Love, The Woman On The Fifth), before returning to Poland to make Ida. The film, which follows a novice nun in the early 1960s, ended up becoming an unlikely crossover success in the United States and won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language film.
Pawlikowski’s new project, which is simply titled Cold War, is his first since then. The cast includes Tomasz Kot, Joanna Kulig, and Ida co-star Agata Kulesza. Details on the plot remain vague, but according to the Deadline report...
Pawlikowski, who immigrated to the UK in his teens, began his career with documentaries about the Eastern Bloc and English-language fiction films (My Summer Of Love, The Woman On The Fifth), before returning to Poland to make Ida. The film, which follows a novice nun in the early 1960s, ended up becoming an unlikely crossover success in the United States and won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language film.
Pawlikowski’s new project, which is simply titled Cold War, is his first since then. The cast includes Tomasz Kot, Joanna Kulig, and Ida co-star Agata Kulesza. Details on the plot remain vague, but according to the Deadline report...
- 2/7/2017
- by Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
- avclub.com
Ida director’s latest feature is a romance set in Europe in the 1950s; Curzon Artificial Eye will release in the UK.
Paris-based MK2 Films and London-based Protagonist Pictures are joining forces to handle worldwide sales on Cold War, the latest feature from Oscar-winning director Pawel Pawlikowski (Ida), which has begun production in Poland.
The companies will introduce the title to buyers at the European Film Market (Feb 9-17) in Berlin, it is due for completion in 2018.
Cold War is a love story set against the background of the titular conflict in 1950s Poland, Berlin, Yugoslavia and Paris.
It is a Polish-French-uk co-production and was also written by Pawlikowski [pictured]. The screenplay is in Polish and French. Tomasz Kot (soon to be seen in Agnieszka Holland’s Spoor) and alongside Agata Kulesza and Joanna Kulig of Ida fame.
The director is teaming again with long-term partners Tanya Seghatchian (My Summer of Love) of Apocalypso Pictures and Ewa Puszczyńska...
Paris-based MK2 Films and London-based Protagonist Pictures are joining forces to handle worldwide sales on Cold War, the latest feature from Oscar-winning director Pawel Pawlikowski (Ida), which has begun production in Poland.
The companies will introduce the title to buyers at the European Film Market (Feb 9-17) in Berlin, it is due for completion in 2018.
Cold War is a love story set against the background of the titular conflict in 1950s Poland, Berlin, Yugoslavia and Paris.
It is a Polish-French-uk co-production and was also written by Pawlikowski [pictured]. The screenplay is in Polish and French. Tomasz Kot (soon to be seen in Agnieszka Holland’s Spoor) and alongside Agata Kulesza and Joanna Kulig of Ida fame.
The director is teaming again with long-term partners Tanya Seghatchian (My Summer of Love) of Apocalypso Pictures and Ewa Puszczyńska...
- 2/7/2017
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
Title: Les Innocentes (The Innocents) Director: Anne Fontaine Starring: Lou De Laâge, Agata Buzek, Agata Kulesza, Vincent Macaigne, Joanna Kulig and Eliza Rycembel French director Anne Fontaine adapts a true story about the frailty of faith, exploring with powerful delicacy the human condition. Les Innocentes (The Innocents) is set in Poland in 1945. The magnetic Lou De Laâge is Mathilde Beaulieu, a young French Red Cross doctor who is sent to assist the survivors of the German camps. During her medical mission she discovers several nuns in advanced states of pregnancy during a visit to a nearby convent. The discreet representation of the excruciating calvary of these innocent women is [ Read More ]
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- 11/21/2016
- by Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi
- ShockYa
The Innocents (Les Innocentes) Music Box Films Reviewed by: Harvey Karten, Shockya Grade: B+ Director: Anne Fontaine Written by: Sandrina B. Karine, Alice Vial, story by Philippe Maynial, adaptation and dialogues by Anne Fontaine and Pascal Bonitzer. Cast: Lou de Laâge, Agata Kulesza, Agata Buzek Screened at: Review 2, NYC, 6/21/16 Opens: July 1, 2016 Maureen Dowd, a long-term columnist for the New York Times who is as liberal as her newspaper, wrote once about a debate she had with her more conservative sister. Her sister had criticized Senator John McCain for an alleged extra-marital affair, to which Dowd replied, “Any man who spent five years in a box can [ Read More ]
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- 7/31/2016
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
Courtesy of Music Box Films
The French drama The Innocents takes place shortly after World War II in Poland, a story involving the war’s devastation and aftermath, the occupying Russian forces who drove out the Germans, and some cloistered Catholic nuns. As such, it will inevitably draw comparison to Ida, the searing drama that explored issues of post-war communist Poland and identity for a woman raised by nuns. Although both films deal with nuns and post-war Poland, Ida’s story largely takes place years after the war, while this one takes place in 1945, in its immediate aftermath.
The Innocents is a rare thing, a story set in a war-torn environment but featuring almost entirely strong female characters. French director Anne Fontaine co-wrote the screen adaptation of the true story. Her previous films include Coco Before Chanel and Gemma Bovary, which she also co-wrote.
The central character was based on a real woman Madeleine Pauliac,...
The French drama The Innocents takes place shortly after World War II in Poland, a story involving the war’s devastation and aftermath, the occupying Russian forces who drove out the Germans, and some cloistered Catholic nuns. As such, it will inevitably draw comparison to Ida, the searing drama that explored issues of post-war communist Poland and identity for a woman raised by nuns. Although both films deal with nuns and post-war Poland, Ida’s story largely takes place years after the war, while this one takes place in 1945, in its immediate aftermath.
The Innocents is a rare thing, a story set in a war-torn environment but featuring almost entirely strong female characters. French director Anne Fontaine co-wrote the screen adaptation of the true story. Her previous films include Coco Before Chanel and Gemma Bovary, which she also co-wrote.
The central character was based on a real woman Madeleine Pauliac,...
- 7/8/2016
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
To many, the name Lou de Laage doesn’t ring much of a bell. But anyone paying attention to the world of foreign and art house cinema this year has seen this striking young thespian become something of a break out star. After starring in Melanie Laurent’s beloved Breathe last year, the 26 year old actress made another splash this year with her fantastic turn in the Juliette Binoche-co-starring gem L’attesa, a film she utterly stole from the legendary acting titan. And she’s not done yet.
Entitled The Innocents, Lou de Laage stars in this Anne Fontaine-directed drama as Mathilde, a young doctor who arrives at a Polish convent with the hopes of assisting in a very tragic predicament. The film begins in December of 1945, and we soon discover that a Benedictine nun is seeking help in assisting a group of nuns currently with child after...
Entitled The Innocents, Lou de Laage stars in this Anne Fontaine-directed drama as Mathilde, a young doctor who arrives at a Polish convent with the hopes of assisting in a very tragic predicament. The film begins in December of 1945, and we soon discover that a Benedictine nun is seeking help in assisting a group of nuns currently with child after...
- 7/7/2016
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
When Anne Fontaine’s “The Innocents” made its debut at Sundance earlier this year, it was under the title “Agnus Dei,” referring to a liturgical chant that has been a part of Roman Catholic mass since the seventh century. The sentiment of the traditional chant is simple: “Lamb of God, you who take away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us. Lamb of God, you who take away the sins of the world, grant us peace.” For the haunted characters that inhabit Fontaine’s sensitive slice of forgotten history, that search for mercy and peace finds itself in some very unexpected places. And not all of them are touched by God.
Fontaine’s film tackles a fictionalized take on the story of Madeleine Pauliac (the film renames her Mathilde Beaulieu), a doctor and Resistance fighter who was a member of the French Red Cross during and after World War II.
Fontaine’s film tackles a fictionalized take on the story of Madeleine Pauliac (the film renames her Mathilde Beaulieu), a doctor and Resistance fighter who was a member of the French Red Cross during and after World War II.
- 7/1/2016
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
To help sift through the increasing number of new releases (independent or otherwise), the Weekly Film Guide is here! Below you’ll find basic plot, personnel and cinema information for all of this week’s fresh offerings.
Starting this month, we’ve also put together a list for the entire month. We’ve included this week’s list below, complete with information on screening locations for films in limited release.
See More: Here Are All the Upcoming Movies in Theaters for July 2016
Here are the films opening theatrically in the U.S. the week of Friday, July 1. All synopses provided by distributor unless listed otherwise.
Wide
The Bfg
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Bill Hader, Jemaine Clement, Mark Rylance, Penelope Wilton, Rebecca Hall, Ruby Barnhill
Synopsis: The Bfg is no ordinary bone-crunching giant. He is far too nice and jumbly. It’s lucky for Sophie that he is. Had she been...
Starting this month, we’ve also put together a list for the entire month. We’ve included this week’s list below, complete with information on screening locations for films in limited release.
See More: Here Are All the Upcoming Movies in Theaters for July 2016
Here are the films opening theatrically in the U.S. the week of Friday, July 1. All synopses provided by distributor unless listed otherwise.
Wide
The Bfg
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Bill Hader, Jemaine Clement, Mark Rylance, Penelope Wilton, Rebecca Hall, Ruby Barnhill
Synopsis: The Bfg is no ordinary bone-crunching giant. He is far too nice and jumbly. It’s lucky for Sophie that he is. Had she been...
- 7/1/2016
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
It’s never too early to start planning a trip to the movies. Now that July is upon us, we wanted to have a place for movie fans to see every film opening in theaters for the entire month. We’ve separated the wide releases from the arthouse/specialty offerings for each week, giving you the best of both worlds. (Synopses are provided by festivals and distributors.)
For more of what’s on the horizon, you can also bookmark our calendar page, where we’ll update releases for the rest of the year. In the meantime, enjoy your time at the theaters!
Week of July 1 Wide
The Bfg
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Bill Hader, Jemaine Clement, Mark Rylance, Penelope Wilton, Rebecca Hall, Ruby Barnhill
Synopsis: The Bfg is no ordinary bone-crunching giant. He is far too nice and jumbly. It’s lucky for Sophie that he is. Had she been...
For more of what’s on the horizon, you can also bookmark our calendar page, where we’ll update releases for the rest of the year. In the meantime, enjoy your time at the theaters!
Week of July 1 Wide
The Bfg
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Bill Hader, Jemaine Clement, Mark Rylance, Penelope Wilton, Rebecca Hall, Ruby Barnhill
Synopsis: The Bfg is no ordinary bone-crunching giant. He is far too nice and jumbly. It’s lucky for Sophie that he is. Had she been...
- 6/30/2016
- by Kate Halliwell, Kyle Kizu and Steve Greene
- Indiewire
The first trailer for Anne Fontaine‘s (Gemma Bovery, Adore) latest feature The Innocents (alternatively titled Agnus Dei) depicts the struggle of a young Red Cross doctor in Poland, 1945, who realizes several nuns are pregnant when she goes to assist survivors of a German camp.
With largely locked down compositions mixed with controlled, gliding shots, the imagery is reminiscent of 2014’s wonderful Ida. However, The Innocents has a more vintage, grainy filmic quality that lends itself to its darker, cooler color palette and low light imagery.
We said in our review: “Despite an ending that is far too obvious and tidy, Agnus Dei is a moving drama about the struggle to keep one’s faith in the most difficult of situations. Also working as an allegory for humanity’s enduring difficulty to stay true to one’s ideals when a quandary is thrown in the mix, Agnus Dei is a...
With largely locked down compositions mixed with controlled, gliding shots, the imagery is reminiscent of 2014’s wonderful Ida. However, The Innocents has a more vintage, grainy filmic quality that lends itself to its darker, cooler color palette and low light imagery.
We said in our review: “Despite an ending that is far too obvious and tidy, Agnus Dei is a moving drama about the struggle to keep one’s faith in the most difficult of situations. Also working as an allegory for humanity’s enduring difficulty to stay true to one’s ideals when a quandary is thrown in the mix, Agnus Dei is a...
- 6/17/2016
- by Mike Mazzanti
- The Film Stage
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