What to expect
Pawlikowski compresses years into sharp musical and visual transitions. Folk performance, jazz, socialist spectacle, and private desire create a romance whose gaps carry as much force as its reunions.
How to ease in
Dates and countries move quickly. Follow the music and the couple’s changing freedom; each performance reveals where they are allowed to belong at that moment.
Heads-up
A quick, non-exhaustive note Includes political repression, alcohol misuse, infidelity, imprisonment, suicide, and a destructive relationship.
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I am drawn to the cuts between reunions. The film trusts an entrance, a song, or a changed face to reveal the years that love did not manage to solve.
— Momo
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