I get the praise for the style. But I feel I have seen this storyline a hundred times in bad German TV shows (a couple’s love crushed by the evil Soviet system). I doubt that Poland was this dark and Paris was this glamorous all of the time, ever. Also, the woman is the crazy character who drags the man back into doom after they could have had such a nice life in the free world - too many backwards cliches at once for my taste.