Polish cinema has traditionally been a bit of a hard sell with our MovieNight audience, but if we were to start counting with just the last two, we would be 2 for 2! Pawel Pawlikowski’s achingly beautiful Ida had the look and feel of classic from the sixties, as of course did the last Polish feature shown here: Knife in the Water, by Roman Polanski. But, whereas Knife in the Water had stark, high-contrast compositions, cinematographers Ryszard Lenczewski and Lukasz Zal painted Ida in shades of beautiful grey. Stunning and thought-provoking.

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