Synopsis
Anna, a young novitiate in 1960s Poland, is on the verge of taking her vows when she discovers a family secret dating back to the years of the German occupation.
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Cast
- Agata KuleszaWanda
- Agata TrzebuchowskaAnna
- Dawid OgrodnikLis
- Jerzy TrelaSzymon
- Adam SzyszkowskiFeliks
- Halina SkoczyńskaMother Superior
- Joanna KuligSinger
- Dorota KudukKaska
- Natalia ŁągiewczykBronia
- Afrodyta WeselakMarysia
Recommendations
- 100
The Hollywood Reporter
Frame by frame, Ida looks resplendently bleak, its stunning monochromes combining with the inevitable gloomy Polish weather and communist-era deprivations to create a harsh, unforgiving environment. - 100
Village Voice
Ida unfolds partly as chamber play and partly as road movie, following the two women on a search for their dead beloveds' anonymous graves. - 88
New York Post
Both actresses are extraordinary, but Kulesza — bitter, sarcastic and tragic — carries the movie’s soul. - 83
Portland Oregonian
Just as austere and demanding as you'd expect a black-and-white film about a Polish nun to be. Don't let that scare you, though. - 83
The Playlist
If it does suffer slightly from an overall lack of urgency that will mean those looking for a more directly emotive experience may find it hard to engage with, the more patient viewer has rewards in store that are rich and rare indeed. - 80
The Guardian
Every moment of Ida feels intensely personal. It is a small gem, tender and bleak, funny and sad, superbly photographed in luminous monochrome: a sort of neo-new wave movie with something of the classic Polish film school and something of Truffaut, but also deadpan flecks of Béla Tarr and Aki Kaurismäki. - 80
The Dissolve
Ida’s piercing intimacy makes the deepest impression, but its vision is deceptively wide-reaching despite a scale that’s deliberately pared-down and small. - 75
Slant Magazine
Pawel Pawlikowski shows great empathy toward the idea of illusions as a way of attaining emotional stability in even the most brutal terrain.
