A decade+ spanning love story that never really resonates because we never really get to know the protagonists, nor see why they are so mad for one another. I get that love can be inexplicable, and that we are often drawn to people without a clear sense of why, but there's like no indication of what is keeping these two pining for each other after years apart.
It seems like Pawlikowski is more interested in how historic and political circumstances impact his characters than actually providing space for them to become people.
The cinematography looks great though.
