Struggles of love

Pawlikowski's 90-minute movie covers nearly a decade without wasting a frame

A  couple of recent movies confirmed what to my mind is the oldest adage: “If you love something, set it free. If it comes back, it's yours. If not, it was never meant to be.”

Polish director Pawel Pawlikowski’s Cold War is about an unlikely romantic relationship between a music director (Tomasz Kot) and a singer (Joanna Kulig) who he discovers during the 1950s. The film fetched Pawlikowski the best director award at the Cannes Festival this year — another testament to the movie's delicate beauty that exudes from each and every one of its black-and-white frame.

With Cold War, Pawlikowski is