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IDA, the 2015 Oscar winning film to screen in Half Moon Bay on Friday Feb 27
IDA, a Polish film about a trip of self-discovery recently won the Best Foreign Film Oscar. This Fri, the Coastside Film Society screens IDA
The Coastside Film Society will screen IDA, winner of the 2015 Oscar for best Foreign Film.
New Yorker critic David Denby calls IDA: “By far the best movie of the year! Shot in a hard-focused black and white -- where every shot is as definitive as an icon -- with images so distinct and powerful that they sharpen our senses. “
Friday, Feb. 27 at 7:30 pm
Coastside Senior Housing/Senior Coastsiders
925 Main Street, Half Moon Bay
$8 suggested donation
In Polish, with English subtitles.
Rated PG-13 for adult themes and heavy smoking.
Filmmaker Pawel Pawlikowski, long known for his award-winning English films, returns to his native Poland to craft a gorgeous, moving and intimate drama about the country he loves and some of the secrets about its Nazi and Communist past.
The scene: Poland 1962. On the eve of taking her vows, 18 year old novice Anna meets her estranged aunt Wanda, a cynical Communist judge who shocks the naive Anna with a stunning revelation: Anna is Jewish and her real name is Ida. Ida and Wanda embark on a revelatory journey to their old family home to discover the fate of Ida’s birth parents and unearth dark secrets dating back to the Nazi occupation.
As serious as the film can be, not all is dark and much of the action is life-affirming. In fact, if you want to get the director’s goat, describe this film as a Holocaust piece. As he frequently says, “IDA is just as much about jazz and rock and roll as it is about Nazis.”
Critic Dana Stevens, in her review in Slate Magazine, agrees with the director. The music the characters listen to through throughout the film “is significant and carefully chosen, from Wanda’ treasured collection of classical LPs to the tinny Polish pop that plays on the car radio as the women drive toward their grim destination.The truths this young nun and her aunt discover in the Polish countryside may be terrible, but the journey they undertake together to unearth those secrets is hauntingly beautiful. Take the journey with them.”
More info and directions at: www.HMBFilm.org