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Friday 28 december 2018
In ‘Cold War,’ a love exiled by communism

By JAKE COYLE far behind. At first, the per-
Associated Press ilous air of a femme fatale
It took “Aquaman” two hangs over her. While they
and a half hours just to put lie in a field, she pledges
a fancy trident in its hero’s her fidelity to Wiktor even
hands. Pawel Pawlikowski’s while confessing that she’s
latest, “Cold War,” follows reporting on him to their
a doomed romance over communist supervisors.
15 years and across much With Zula front and center,
of mid-century Europe in the show is a hit, a success
a mere 88 minutes. And the state quickly co-opts
you’re telling me the guy for propagandist means.
who can swim fast is the su- Soon, they are singing
perhero? communist anthems with
In two immaculate films in an enormous curtain of
a row, Pawlikowski has put Stalin draped behind them.
countless filmmakers to While on tour, Wiktor and
shame with his devastating Zula resolve to flee to West
concision. In his Oscar-win- Berlin, but Zula stands him
ning and surprise arthouse up. It will be years before
smash “Ida” and now in they reunite in Paris.
“Cold War,” Pawlikowski In Pawlikowski’s film, it’s of-
distills staggering amounts ten what happens in be-
of story into austere mono- tween the cuts that hurts
chrome images so deeply the most. Just as crucial
expressive you could dive moments rob Zula and Wik-
into them. This image released by Amazon Studios shows Joanna Kulig, left, and Tomasz Kot in a scene from tor of years together, time
“Cold War” is a kind of “Cold War.” simply gets edited out.
companion piece to “Ida.” Associated Press When they do finally make
It’s similarly set in post-war begins with a folk song, masz Kot) is traversing the the immediately infatuated a life for themselves in Paris,
Poland, shot in pristine sung directly into the cam- bleak winter countryside Wiktor. The school’s other it’s warped by the empti-
black-and-white by cin- era by a pair of peasants, of Poland in 1949 to record director dryly notes Zulu ness of exile. They live in a
ematographer Lukasz Zal, whose plaintive tune fore- folk music and hold audi- isn’t the mountain girl she bohemian loft. Wiktor plays
framed in a boxy acad- shadows the heartbreak to tions for a new school of tra- pretends to be, plus she’s in jazz clubs. They make a
emy ratio and has jazz come. “Open up my love, ditional song and dance. on parole for killing her fa- record of Zula but she curs-
music drifting evocatively for fear of God,” they sing. During tryouts, one student ther. es the French translations
through it. But “Cold War” Pianist Wiktor Warski (To- stands out to Wiktor: a strik- “He mistook me for my of the songs they sang in
ing, sultry blonde named mother so I used a knife to Poland. A relationship al-
Zuzanna, or Zula (Joanna show him the difference,” ways tumultuous turns trag-
Kulig). She doesn’t sing as Zula later explains. ic without a country. “In Po-
well as some of the others Wiktor promptly, inevitably land you were a man,” she
but she catches the eye of falls for her and Zula isn’t sneers.q

Miley Cyrus, Liam Hemsworth

reportedly got married

Associated Press
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Miley
Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth
appear to have tied the
knot amid reports the cou-
ple got married in a secret
wedding ceremony.
Cyrus posted three black-
and-white photos of her
and Hemsworth on the
singer’s Instagram and Twit-
ter accounts on Wednes-
day. She captioned her
photos writing “10 years
later ...” and “12.23.18,” In this Aug. 8, 2013, file photo, actor Liam Hemsworth and singer
possibly indicating the day and actress Miley Cyrus arrive on the red carpet at the US
they exchanged vows. The premiere of the feature film “Paranoia” at the DGA Theatre in
26-year-old Cyrus shared Los Angeles.
another photo of her and Associated Press
Hemsworth kissing. He also dressed in all-white while Hemsworth’s representa-
posted a photo of them the 28-year-old actor is tives did not immediately
with words “My love.” wearing a tuxedo with respond to an email re-
In each picture, Cyrus is white shoes. Cyrus and questing comment.q