A young postulant is sent out of the safety of her cloistered life to seek out her one living relation. She discovers much about her origin, her family and the modern life of early 1960's. This is a requirement for Ida before she can become a nun. Pawel Pawlikowski's film offers so much just beneath it's surface. This is a stunning film. It is near flawless.

I do not understand all the complaints about there not being subtitles. I just watched it, and there are English subtitles. Maybe iTunes added them recently. Pretty decent movie.

The trailer had subtitles. I assumed the movie would be subtitled. Rented the movie - guess what? NO SUBTITLES! No iTunes declaration it was in only in Polish. I only understand English. Very misleading preview/trailer and disappointing. Normally I have positive experiences with iTunes. This time I feel ripped-off. False advertising = should be refunded my rental fee. Very bad form on iTunes part… Curious whether this review will be posted as that it gives iTunes a black eye.

I hate it because I can't watch it. How do I get the subtitles?

attention!!! It does not have subtitles and it is in Polish!!! Couldn’t watch 10 minutes of it.

Film looked beautiful but there were no subtitles and my Italian is rough -- no -- make that nonexistent. So couldn't watch the film

Soooo boring...

I am very disappointed with this movie. Catholics during the war were not killing Jews, but instead they were hiding them the best way they could putting themselves in grave danger. Also, the way that the scenes in the movie were ver anti-climaxtic, so you see a women jump out of a wind like its nothing, most of the time there are no emotion at all in the scenes. The main actress had no emotion and looked very depressed during whole movie. Maybe Pawel Pawlikowski should make a movie about 3,000 polish people being murdered by Nazis every day during the war.

I attempted to watch this film on iTunes rental but discovered that indeed there were no available English subtitles, the menu was grayed out. I contacted iTunes support and was told they had no reported problems with subtitles and was refunded the rental fee. I find it hard to believe they would not know this when there are numerous posts in this film's review section. Welcome to the Dark Side...

The role of communist judge played by a Polish actress Agata Kulesza is a masterpiece.