Review of Ida

Don't be insulted, it's a nice movie, it's shot and designed very well, characters are nicely written, actors are beautiful, and the script is well constructed. So what's the issue, exactly this review's title, from my perspective, it seems that the filmmakers wanted an Oscar so bad (I don't blame them, who doesn't) that they just used every element they could fit into this story that is known to give a movie better chance at winning. It's about a young orphan novitiate nun who is about to take her vows when suddenly she discovers that she is descended of a Jewish family that was murdered by the Nazis, and during the same journey she starts to have feelings towards a Jazz musician and begins to doubt whether being a nun is really the path she wants. Both elements are severely overplayed, and both are elements are the very foundation of this movie. I cannot but think that Ida was not made so that the filmmaker deliver to us a vision that he wants to share, but instead was designed specifically to allure to film festivals and awards committees.