{"id":9286,"date":"2014-09-14T20:00:32","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T01:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=9286"},"modified":"2014-09-16T19:35:24","modified_gmt":"2014-09-17T00:35:24","slug":"ida-2013-pawel-pawlikowski","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/9286","title":{"rendered":"Ida (2013, Pawel Pawlikowski)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Little Orphan Anna grew up in the church, is about to become a nun when the higher-ups say they&#8217;ve located her only living family, and send her off to meet her aunt.  Aunt Wanda, a judge in town, says Anna&#8217;s real name is Ida, she is a Jew whose parents were murdered during WWII.  The two set out to visit the parents&#8217; grave, which is complicated since they haven&#8217;t got one, but fortunately run across their murderers who&#8217;ve taken the family home as their own.  They take a couple bags of bones (Ida&#8217;s parents, Wanda&#8217;s son) to the family plot in a now-abandoned cemetery.  Wanda tries to convince Ida to give up the nunnery, hooks her up with a cute saxophonist called Lis.  Not much dialogue in the movie so we have to draw our own conclusions why Ida sleeps with the boy then sneaks away to return to the convent &#8211; but not much imagination is needed to figure why Wanda commits suicide.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image14\/ida2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>4:3 b\/w movie, beautifully shot though I sat close enough for the screen to look pixelly in wide shots.  Plenty of head room, and a tendency to cram Ida into a lower corner of the screen, reminding me of Josh Brolin in <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/1395\">Milk<\/a><\/em> but probably for a different purpose.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image14\/ida1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>The only actor I&#8217;m seeing in anything else is Joanna Kulig of <em>Elles<\/em>, gorgeous young singer of the saxophonist&#8217;s band.  Pawlikowski made <em>My Summer of Love<\/em> and won awards for <em>Last Resort<\/em> with Paddy Considine.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image14\/ida3.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image14\/ida4.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Something I didn&#8217;t get that J. Kuehner explains: Wanda reveals &#8220;her own past as a prosecutor of &#8216;enemies of the people&#8217; (historically, former anti-Nazi resistance fighters who were convicted in show trials under the Stalinist regime)&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Little Orphan Anna grew up in the church, is about to become a nun when the higher-ups say they&#8217;ve located her only living family, and send her off to meet her aunt. Aunt Wanda, a judge in town, says Anna&#8217;s real name is Ida, she is a Jew whose parents were murdered during WWII. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[332,1841,249,607,1847,472],"class_list":["post-9286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-nuns","tag-pawel-pawlikowski","tag-poland","tag-suicide","tag-the-ross","tag-wwii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9297,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9286\/revisions\/9297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}