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Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Agata Trzebuchowska / It´s not something that greatly interest me

Agata Kulesza, Paweł Pawlikowski and Agata Trzebuchowska

Agata Trzebuchowska, 

star of Oscar-winning 'Ida,' quitting acting: It's 'not something that greatly interests me'

BY CORKY SIEMASZKO


NEW YORK DAILY NEWS


Wednesday, February 25, 2015, 11:27 AM


She won — and she’s done.

Agata Trzebuchowska, the star of the Oscar-winning Polish movie “Ida,” says she’s through with acting — but maybe not with the movie business.

“My foray into acting made me very happy, it was a great adventure with a fantastic ending,” she told the Gazeta Wyborcza newspaper. “But acting is not something that greatly interests me. It's not my path. I have other interests, like maybe directing.”
Not that Trzebuchowska is planning to “dive into that right away.”

Agata Trezbuchowska and Agata Kulesza
Ida by Pawel Pawlikowski


“I plan to wait a bit and think about what I really want to do,” she said.

Trzebuchowska, who spoke after returning home to Warsaw from the Academy Awards, had zero acting experience before director Pawel Pawlikowski cast her in the total role as a young wannabe nun who suddenly learns she is Jewish.

Discovered in a Warsaw cafe, Trzebuchowska agreed to do the movie because she was a fan of another Pawlikowski movie “My Summer of Love,” which helped turn actress Emily Blunt into a star.

“I had a feeling that this would be something remarkable,” she told Polish Radio before Sunday’s awards ceremony.

Trzebuchowska’s turn in the haunting post-Holocaust movie was widely praised and helped propel the film to Poland’s first-ever foreign movie Oscar.




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Tuesday, July 21, 2015

Agata Trzebuchowska / It was an accident

Agata Trzebuchowska

"It was an accidente"

Interview with Agata Trzebuchowska


Moritz Pfeifer met Agata Trzebuchowska, the actress playing Ida in the epynomous film, during the Polish Film Festival in Paris in December 2013. The movie opened in theaters in France in February 2014.

How did you get to play the role the movie?

It was an accident. I was sitting in a café in Warsaw when Małgorzata Szumowska spotted me. So Pawel, the director, saw me and then we met and shot one scene and that was the beginning.


Was it difficult for you to act?

Not really, I thought of it as an adventure. It was funny for me. I had some doubts, of course, but not very deep ones. Pawel and Agata Kulesza, who is one of the best Polish actresses, helped me out.

Do you think about starting a career as an actress?

No, not at all. I’m studying History of Art, Literature and Philosophy. It was just one thing that happened in my life.

In the movie you play a nun. Could you identify with her?

I can’t say that I can identify with her. But I try to take her away from this really tiny historical context and compare our lives and find some similarities. I don’t have a religious background, but for the character the change, going away from the nunnery, was the most important thing, so there was a similarity with me doing my first movie.

So the historical background is not important?

Of course, the background is important but it’s not the only aspect. The main subject of the movie is the relationship between the two characters, not the historical setting. Ida is fascinated by her aunt and, despite of their differences, they develop a very deep relationship.

Do you think that there was some reason why the director chose the aftermath of the Second World War as the film’s setting?

Pawel is very attracted to that period. He was born during that time and he had to go away from Poland. So now that he’s back he’s very attracted to the period, to the music and the images. And, of course, looking for one’s identity is something he experiences.

Did the movie change the way you see the past?

I don’t think so. The film was important for me, but I can’t say that it changed my views. I am quite familiar with Polish history.

Do you think the director imitated older Polish movies?

You can find some similarities in the aesthetics. But people were different. Today we can say things in our movie that people couldn’t say back then.

Thank you for the interview.


Interview conducted by Moritz Pfeifer



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Monday, July 20, 2015

Ida / A Film Masterpiece



“Ida”: A Film Masterpiece

BY 


The New yorker
MAY 27, 2014



We are so used to constant movement and compulsive cutting in American movies that the stillness of the great new Polish film “Ida” comes as something of a shock. I can’t recall a movie that makes such expressive use of silence and portraiture; from the beginning, I was thrown into a state of awe by the movie’s fervent austerity. Friends have reported similar reactions: if not awe, then at least extreme concentration and satisfaction. This compact masterpiece has the curt definition and the finality of a reckoning—a reckoning in which anger and mourning blend together. The director, Pawel Pawlikowski, left Poland years ago, for England, where he linked up with the English-born playwright Rebecca Lenkiewicz. After making documentaries for British television, Pawlikowski began directing features in English, including “My Summer of Love” (2004), with Emily Blunt, then unknown, and “The Woman in the Fifth” (2012), with Ethan Hawke and Kristin Scott Thomas. “Ida” is a charged, bitter return. Set in 1961, during the Stalinist dictatorship, the movie pushes still further into the past; almost every element in the story evokes the war years and their aftermath. The filmmakers have confronted a birthplace never forgiven but also never abandoned.

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