Oscar-winning director Paweł Pawlikowski said he was "moved beyond reason" the first time he watched his story of doomed love "Cold War," which is based on his personal experience.
The film, nominated for an Oscar for best foreign language film, is a romance that moves from the peasant farms of Poland to Paris jazz clubs and back from the 1940s to the 1960s. It tells the story of the tempestuous affair between Zula, a tough, beautiful woman who wins a place at a school for traditional performing arts set up to promote a wholesome nationalistic image of post-war Poland, and the handsome Wiktor, a musical director at the school.
It was inspired by the relationship between Pawlikowski's late parents.
"It was very personal to start with because that's where the idea came from. It's sort of inspired by the tempestuous and chaotic relationship which involved many divorces, separations, marrying other people, remarrying, moving countries and so on," he told Reuters at a pre-Oscars celebration for nominees.
"It was personal at the beginning and it was personal at the end, when I actually saw it cut and when I actually sat there and watched it, it kind of moved beyond reason," he said.
Pawlikowski is also nominated for best director.
The Oscars will be handed out on February 24 at a ceremony in Hollywood.
Autor: gf / Źródło: TVN24 News in English, Reuters