Ida

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Ida

PG-13

Released May 2, 2014

1h 20m

Drama

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In 1962, Anna is about to take vows as a nun when she learns from her only relative that she is Jewish. Both women embark on a journey to discover their family story and where they belong.

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Critics Consensus

Empathetically written, splendidly acted, and beautifully photographed, Ida finds director Pawel Pawlikowski revisiting his roots to powerful effect.

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J. Hoberman

Tablet

Ida is not only an evocation of early '60s Poland, the period of Pawlikowski's childhood, but a film that gives the illusion that it could have been made then.

Dec 31, 2015

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Peter Travers

Rolling Stone

Now that Paweł Pawlikowski's haunting Polish film has been nominated for a foreign-language Oscar, Ida is back in the conversation. Let yourself be enveloped by a modern cinema classic.

Rated: 4/4

Feb 6, 2015

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A.A. Dowd

AV Club

Nestled within its sins-of-the-elders narrative is a faintly charming cross-generational bonding picture, pairing a worldly cynic with a young girl taking her last gasp of secular air before giving her life to the Lord.

Rated: B+

Jan 5, 2015

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JD Duran

InSession Film

This is easily one of the best films of the year and nails everything it was going for.

Rated: A+

Aug 19, 2024

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Brendan Cassidy

InSession Film

With beautiful black-and-white cinematography and two extraordinary female performances, this is a movie that captures both a particular time and place as well as a conflicting way of life in wonderful fashion.

Jun 17, 2024

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CJ Sheu

Review Film Review

It’s a religious test, as suggested when Wanda replies to Ida’s request to seek her buried parents, “What if you find there’s no God?” Well, there is a God, and He’s lovingly observing Ida through the film’s perfectly framed static compositions[.]

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Gertrude F

Profoundly raw, intensely disturbing.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

05/21/24

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Rita E

Fabulous, just fabulous. Anxiously awaiting The Zone of Silence by Pawlikowski too. FYI, you can watch Ida for free on Tubi, if you don't have a lot of $ like me.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

11/24/23

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sam s

Wonderful movie with a great cinematography

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

03/15/23

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Audience Member

Arthouse foreign movie that I cannot figure out why it is ranked so high? It is ok but nothing spectacular.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/27/23

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Audience Member

A quiet, understated, and devastating piece from Pawlikowski. Its bleak setting and minimal dialogue provide an insight into Eastern Europe post World War 2 as people learn how to deal with the atrocities committed and the eternal sense of nothingness from living under the Soviet Union. So little is said but so much can be taken away. Shoutout to the Gleesonator for the recommendation on this one

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/22/23

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Tony S

A very quiet and melancholic film, with very unique and insistent framing, static long shots, full of dead space and dead eyes of the characters. A story about identity, that tries to not show explicit sense of victimhood towards the events it portrays, which is admirable. The sorrow and pain are there but that's not what is in the foreground. What takes away from the movie is the opacity of the Ida herself. Even if it's the intent, in the best style of Bresson.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

10/07/21

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Synopsis

In 1962, Anna is about to take vows as a nun when she learns from her only relative that she is Jewish. Both women embark on a journey to discover their family story and where they belong.

Director: Paweł Pawlikowski
Producer: Eric Abraham, Piotr Dzięcioł, Ewa Puszczyńska, Christian Falkenberg Husum
Screenwriter: Rebecca Lenkiewicz, Paweł Pawlikowski
Distributor: Music Box Films
Production Co: Opus Film, Phoenix Film
Rating: PG-13 (Some Sexuality|Smoking|Thematic Elements)
Genre: Drama
Original Language: Polish
Release Date (Theaters): May 2, 2014, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 9, 2015
Box Office (Gross USA): $3.8M
Runtime: 1h 20m

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