Ida

Ida

classified 12A S
Film

Please note: This was screened in Oct 2014

Director
Pawel Pawlikowski
Cast
Agata Kulesza, Agata Trzebuchowska, Dawid Ogrodnik
Details
82 mins, Subtitled, 2013, Poland / Denmark

Arriving atop a wave of critical acclaim after sweeping the top prizes at both London and Toronto Film Festivals, Pavel Pawlikowski's (My Summer of Love) intensely personal and beautifully austere film follows a young Polish woman's search for the truth about her past. Set in the 1960s, it follows sheltered Anna (newcomer Agata Trzebuchowska), an apprentice nun who, on the eve of taking her final vows, leaves the convent for the first time to track down her only surviving relative. But Aunt Wanda (Agata Kulesza) isn't exactly what she was expecting: she's a hard drinking sensualist and disgraced former state prosecutor from the Communist era who, having seen the worst of humanity, has no faith left. When Wanda reveals a dark secret from the family's past both women must confront the truth, and now the pair, the oddest of couples, embark on a very daunting road trip. Brilliantly structured and elegantly photographed in luminous black and white, Ida is a small gem - tender and bleak, funny and sad, it's an almost spectral story that will restore your faith in cinema in its purest, most elemental form.

  • The evening screenings of Ida on Tue 7 Oct are part of our Cinébites deal: get a cinema ticket, veggie or meat pasty, and a drink (wine/beer or soft drink) for only £15.

Ticket prices: Screenings before 16:00: £5.50 full / £4.00 concessions. Screenings after 16:00: £8.00 full / £6.50 concessions.


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