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Ida
Poland, 1962. Anna, an orphan brought up by nuns in the convent, is a novice. She she discovers a dark family secret dating back to the years of the Nazi occupation.
22 August 1966, Bialystok, Podlaskie, Poland
17 January 1969, Elblag, Warminsko-Mazurskie, Poland
1968, Poland
27 September 1971, Szczecin, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland
11 October 1985, Lublin, Lubelskie, Poland
May 30, 2015
A fascinating black and white film by Ryszard Lenczewski and Lukas Zal which demands a bigger screen. [full review in Spanish]
January 05, 2015
Don't adjust your set: the film is (strikingly) photographed in Bergman-esque shades of gray-and-white.
December 31, 2015
Ida is not only an evocation of early '60s Poland, the period of Pawlikowski's childhood, but a film that gives the illusion that it could have been made then.
June 21, 2016
Ida is a quaint drama in technique, but its formidable power lies in these cardinal quandaries.
January 05, 2015
Nestled within its sins-of-the-elders narrative is a faintly charming cross-generational bonding picture, pairing a worldly cynic with a young girl taking her last gasp of secular air before giving her life to the Lord.
March 01, 2016
This graceful film will stay with you long after you see it.
June 27, 2014
Consider "Ida" the first offering in a summer celebrating Polish cinema and the latest masterpiece in a powerful tradition.
July 31, 2015
Slow, beautiful Ida is more impressive cinematically than narratively
January 05, 2015
With her brassy, determined aunt, Ida sets off to find answers and discovers life beyond the convent walls in this leisurely but satisfying journey.
June 21, 2015
Deep undercurrents run beneath the simple surface
March 10, 2017
The silence used in Pawel Pawlikowski's award-winning, thoughtful and intense new film Ida is deafening.
February 06, 2015
Now that Paweł Pawlikowski's haunting Polish film has been nominated for a foreign-language Oscar, Ida is back in the conversation. Let yourself be enveloped by a modern cinema classic.
