and for pawlikowski it is more thanjust incidental.aracters‘ emotions. #0ne, two, three o'clock, four o'clock rock. ..# there is a wonderful centrepiece to the film where the couple has just had a big blowout at a paris jazz club, and they have both had a lot to drink and then "rock around the clock" comes on and she just starts dancing, and the camera just whirls with her as she just completely lets it all out, and it is a tellingly symbolic choice of song, because you can feel that he is this jazzman and time is slightly passing him by, she wants to move with it and he can't quite go with it, and it shows this push—pull dynamic between them. it is a brilliant choice and a brilliant scene. pawlikowski collaborated once more with ida cinematographer lukasz zal whose stunning retro black and white visuals on the film earned him an oscar nomination. in lukasz i had a great collaborator, who is just like, we were kind of symbiotic, like, how do we make it graphic all the time, how do you communicate through images rather than through word