Ida

I haven't watched much recently. A few horror films for Halloween that I enjoyed. And recently watching through a television series from Austria called Inspector Rex, which is basically just Monk but with a dog instead. The film itch returned, however. I've been trying to find something artistic to check out and found it to be quite a struggle, though somehow, somewhere I stumbled across a piece on Ida and how the d…

Ida won the 2014 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film "Ida" is a Polish film directed by Pawel Pawlikowski that lasts barely 80 minutes and has a simple plot: Anna is a novice about to take the vows that, at the request of the mother superior, is going to visit her aunt, the only live relative she has. This aunt, a former communist and alcoholic prosecutor, didn't want to take care of Anna when, after being…

Obtuvo el Oscar a mejor película extranjera en el 2014 "Ida" es una película polaca dirigida por Pawel Pawlikowski que dura apenas 80 minutos y tiene una trama sencilla: Anna es una novicia a punto de tomar los votos que, a petición de la madre superiora, va a visitar a su tía, el único pariente que tiene con vida. Esta tía, una ex fiscal comunista y alcohólica, no quiso hacerse cargo de Anna cuando, tras quedarse h…