Open AccessLes guerres froides : Le film Cold War de Pawel Pawlikowski (2018)
Author(s) -
Laura T. Ilea
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
caietele echinox
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1582-960X
DOI - 10.24193/cechinox.2020.38.06
Subject(s) - cold war , reinterpretation , politics , presupposition , humanities , philosophy , political science , law , epistemology , aesthetics
Every attempt to replace the cold war polarisation represents a reinterpretation of the global conflict in the modern history. In my text, I will link the movie Cold War of the Polish director Pawel Pawlikowski (2018) to the analysis made by Heonik Kwon in his study The Other Cold War (Columbia University Press, 2010), who claims that the very notion of cold war as an unitary concept does not exist. Starting from this presupposition, I will examine the movie, which stages the love story of a couple crossing the Iron Courtain of the post-war Europe. The result is a Polish and British-French coproduction, opening the field of political action and moral imagination rather than of a homogenous perspective over the cold war.