With the arrival of one of our favorite films of the year thus far, Pawel Pawlikowski‘s Ida, Poland’s Oscar submission, on Blu-ray this week, we’ve teamed with Music Box Films to give away five (5) Blu-ray to our readers. Five (5) winners will receive one (1) copy of Ida on Blu-ray. See how to enter below and all entries must be received by 11:59 PM EST on Friday, September 26th.
To enter, do any/all of the below steps — each one grants an additional entry into the contest.
1. Like The Film Stage on Facebook
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3. Comment in the box on Facebook with your favorite foreign film thus far this year or the one you’re most looking forward to.
4. Retweet the following tweet:
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5. Listen to the latest episode of The Film Stage Show on the site or on iTunes for another way to enter.
We will select the winners at random and notify via Facebook or Twitter message. One entry per household. No purchase necessary. Winners must live inside the U.S. and shipping to a P.O. box is not permitted.
From acclaimed international filmmaker Pawel Pawlikowski (Last Resort, My Summer of Love) comes IDA, a moving and passionate drama about a young novitiate nun in 1960s Poland who, on the verge of taking her vows, makes a shocking discovery about her family’s past that sets her on a life-changing path.
Directed and co-written by Pawlikowski, IDA transports audiences to 1960s Poland, where 18-year old Anna (stunning newcomer Agata Trzebuchowska), a sheltered orphan raised in a convent, is preparing to become a nun. When the Mother Superior insists she first visit her sole living relative, naïve and innocent Anna soon finds herself in the presence of her aunt Wanda (Agata Kulesza), a worldly and cynical Communist Party insider who shocks Anna with the declaration that her real name is Ida and her Jewish parents were murdered during the Nazi occupation. This revelation triggers a heart-wrenching journey to the family house and into the secrets of the repressed past, evoking the haunting atrocities caused by the war and the realities of postwar Communism.
Evocatively written, powerfully acted and eloquently shot in black-and-white, IDA is as much a masterful evocation of a time, a dilemma, and a defining historical moment as it is a personal, intimate, and universally human tale about faith, survival and loss.
Ida is available on Blu-ray this week.