Ida

Bram Vroonland

I was profoundly impressed by this movie. It is the perfect example of how a simple premise, executed in a unique and brilliant way, can lead to a perfect film. In a way it takes movies about teenage self-discovery and classic road movies and infuses them with a refinedness that most of them lack. On top of that, every other shot is one of the prettiest ones you have ever seen.

Silvia Grădinaru

A journey about finding one's identity only to lose it again, a timeless immersion into the world of sacred values and sacred pleasures of life, this movie speaks about faith and the faithless, following three history landmarks: personal, worldly and divine. And all that in a rendering of black and white perfection.

Loz Loory

Love how the camera frames people so they are pushed down to the lower edge, with the world pressing in from above. Deceptively simple yet complex plot, as the women take turns dealing with/withdrawing from the real world. The aunt's character is particularly moving and well-written. Her absurd court case at the beginning contrasts with Ida's serious case, which will never see trial. Passes the Bechdel test easily!

Paolo Simeone

It would have been very good if it weren't for one of the most awkward suicides in cinema history and the weird choice in postproduction to enhance blacks so much that everyone looks like a grey alien coming from afar to teach us coldness.

Joe Hackman

Slow-paced and short is usually a winning combo for me. This one, though, is visually arresting, each shot carefully composed and brilliantly executed. Lead actress is gorgeous and compelling. Very glad this got a Best Cine nomination. Bravo! 4.5/5

Rafael Zen

Ida is a blast of aesthetic frenzy. It's too bad it's only that. Here, what's missing is not God, but a good script. Some scene's intentions were good, but at the end you keep thinking: why did Pawlikowski take me here? Bland contemplative sadness.

Andrei Herea

A film high on aesthetics; a pleasurable watch through and through. Yet it does give a feeling at times that film hasn't 'evolved' from the 60's. Then again, the 60's was (arguably) the best decade in cinema... At the end of the day; If you loved its aesthetics, the care and consideration for symbols and underlying themes and wished for something more than perhaps you got: You should see Karel Kachyna's NOC NEVĚSTY.

Francisco R.

Hands down the best BW photography I've seen in a long time, but the direction makes it over-stylized and even anti-spiritual, you can tell Pawel aims for a solemn look, but when you put your characters on the corners/sides of the frame on every single shot for postcard-like images you risk a visual monotony this film can't escape. And a sad, crowd-pleasing holocaust story for content? is there anything more facile?