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Ida

Contemporary Cinema • 1h 22m

Directed by Pawel Pawlikowski | 82 mins | 2013
In 1962, in the Polish People’s Republic, novice nun Ida (AgataTrzebuchowska) is on the verge of taking her vows, but before she does she sets out to visit her only living relative, a promiscuous, hard-living judge (Agata Kulesza). Together they’ll embark on a journey that reveals Ida’s Jewish heritage and the fresh wounds of the Holocaust. In brittle, beautiful black and white. “This compact masterpiece has the curt definition and the finality of a reckoning—a reckoning in which anger and mourning blend together.”—The New Yorker

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