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Cold War, co-written and directed by Pawel Pawlikowski, tells the bittersweet story of two star-crossed lovers.
But the film is also an ode to music itself.
Theyre beautiful and kind of haunting, but also pliable, he says.
Theyseeeach other, adds Pawlikowski.
He sees what her musical imagination gives her.
A folk tune Wiktor, Irina, and Kaczmarek listen to early on is aLemkomelody.
It enchants Kaczmarek until he learns its origins.
(The Slavic group was ethnically cleansed from Poland.)
I love Ella, and she also happened to be my fathers favorite singer.
So there was some echo of him.
It plants a wedge between them because she reacts to the song, and Wiktor doesnt, he says.
