Kieslowski’s most political film takes a look at activism, law and ghosts through two parallel but related stories, but it doesn’t quite achieve the transcendence of his later pictures.
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No End (1985)
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Tag / Krzysztof Kieslowski
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Short Film About Killing, A (1988)
Kieslowski juxtaposes empathy with morality in this powerful film – as essential a watch as any in cinema on the nature of killing, government-sanctioned or otherwise.
Three Colors: Red (1994)
Kieslowski’s final film brilliantly questions the nature of privacy, fate and guilt in this probing tale of morality and choices.
Three Colors: Blue (1993)
A psychological and musical treatise on personal grief by the great Kieslowski, by turns imaginative and humanistic.
Dekalog: One (1988)
Belief systems—namely science and faith—meet at the crossroads in this powerful and devastating first episode of ‘Dekalog’.
Dekalog: Two (1988)
A tale centering on fate and morality involving a doctor, a woman and her severely ill husband, in this ambiguously-layered second episode of ‘Dekalog’.
Dekalog: Three (1988)
The third episode of ‘Dekalog’ is good but not great, and doesn’t resonate as powerfully as the first two.
Dekalog: Four (1988)
The philosophy that life sometimes unfolds for the better when there’s psychological ambiguity over emotional clarity is explored with a light Freudian touch in this fourth episode of ‘Dekalog’.
Dekalog: Five (1988)
A powerful emotional and moral examination of the irrationality of a killer’s actions and the consequent state-sanctioned murder, shot in a haunting vignette effect visual style.
Dekalog: Six (1988)
Continue reading →One of the standout episodes of ‘Dekalog’, the sixth film explores love and sex through a voyeuristic setup, but not without a potent sense of emotion and human connection.
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