I haven't seen such a beautiful film for a long time. The exquisite composition, beautiful light and shadow, appropriate white space, and black and white texture. Every shot is a painting, and it can almost become a teaching material for photography.
Under the restrained handling of director Paul Pavlikows, a story about a Polish Jewish girl in the 1960s seeking her roots, slowly telling the slaughtered and tormented ethnic group, the war brought far from the future The wounds healed, the deep crisis of belief under the totalitarian rule, the spiritual struggle in the detachment of the secular and religious in society, the disappearance of meaning in the face of eternal time, the disillusionment of life.
Some people use Kundera's words to evaluate Ada's complete conversion to religion at the end of the film, "It is far from the ugliness of the world that disgusts her, but the beautiful masks the world wears", I think, very appropriate.
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