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🎙️ EPISODE 239: 02.06.20
Told across various European locations over the span of 15 years, Cold War, shot in wonderful black and white, is a short feature-length film that feels like a series of connected shorts. Characters don't so much as age, but are leveled by time. What we get to see has nothing on the abyss of stories lost in those gaps.
Music ties it all together. Music is everywhere, floating, impenetrable. It can mean so many things and it can mean nothing, perhaps at once. Drunks in a passing truck sing, the flippant metaphor of insular pop rings hollow, rollicking folk survives all violence and time, Bill Haley & His Comets descend from space, political posturing does what it can to tear out the heart and too often succeeds. |
On a personal level, this failed to resonate with me for various reasons, my being a dumb American (I... "do not love Poland..."). But here and now, I am too smart and have been doing this too long to fault the film for that. That one's 'my bad'.
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