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Fascinating piece on how set backs, bad weather, breaking the rules and film crew leaving also shaped the development of Ida

Paweł Pawlikowski on Ida’s journey from script to film Pawel Pawlikowski never learned the rules of film-making and says he’s a film financier’s nightmare – here he explains how he battled industry conventions, as well as Poland’s ‘winter of the century’, to make his award-winning drama

Great article on how composition is king!

Composition, Costuming, & Color: The Clever Ways 'Ida' Expresses a Nun's Inner Turmoil Ida, the Polish film about Anna, a young novitiate nun is a triumph in visual storytelling, evidenced by its Oscar nominations for Best Foreign Language Film and Best Cinematography. There's so much to be said about the film's incredible visual style, from its use of black and white to its 1:33 aspe…