Someone Else's Movie

Valerie Buhagiar on Ida

Episode Summary

Actor and filmmaker Valerie Buhagiar (The Anniversary, It’s Hard to Be Human and now Carmen, playing in theatres across Canada) ponders the religious and emotional undercurrents of Pawel Pawlikowski's Oscar-winning 2013 drama Ida. Your genial host Norm Wilner is always up for a little soul-searching.

Episode Notes

Actor and filmmaker Valerie Buhagiar, who broke out in Bruce McDonald’s Roadkill and Highway 61  and went on to direct her own features -- like The Anniversary, It’s Hard to Be Human and her latest, Carmen, which is now playing in theatres across Canada -- tackles the religious and emotional undercurrents of Pawel Pawlikowski's Oscar-winning 2013 drama Ida, which stars Agata Trzebuchowska as a novitiate in early-60s Poland whose life is changed when she learns the secrets of her own past ... and her country's. Your genial host Norm Wilner is always up for a little soul-searching.