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Tag / Krzysztof Kieslowski

March 25, 2021October 30, 2021 by Eternality Tan

No End (1985)

  • Kieslowski, Krzysztof
  • 1985, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Poland
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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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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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December 21, 2018August 9, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Short Film About Killing, A (1988)

  • Criterion Collection, Kieslowski, Krzysztof
  • 1988, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Poland
  • 4 Comments

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.

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5.
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December 20, 2018March 31, 2019 by Eternality Tan

Three Colors: Red (1994)

  • Criterion Collection, Kieslowski, Krzysztof
  • 1994, France, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Poland, Switzerland
  • 2 Comments

4.5 stars

Kieslowski’s final film brilliantly questions the nature of privacy, fate and guilt in this probing tale of morality and choices.

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December 20, 2018March 31, 2019 by Eternality Tan

Three Colors: Blue (1993)

  • Criterion Collection, Kieslowski, Krzysztof
  • 1993, France, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Poland
  • 3 Comments

4 stars

A psychological and musical treatise on personal grief by the great Kieslowski, by turns imaginative and humanistic.

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December 20, 2018May 5, 2019 by Eternality Tan

Dekalog: One (1988)

  • Criterion Collection, Kieslowski, Krzysztof
  • 1988, Dekalog, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Poland
  • 11 Comments

5 stars

Belief systems—namely science and faith—meet at the crossroads in this powerful and devastating first episode of ‘Dekalog’.

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December 20, 2018May 5, 2019 by Eternality Tan

Dekalog: Two (1988)

  • Criterion Collection, Kieslowski, Krzysztof
  • 1988, Dekalog, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Poland
  • 9 Comments

4.5 stars

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’.

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December 20, 2018May 5, 2019 by Eternality Tan

Dekalog: Three (1988)

  • Criterion Collection, Kieslowski, Krzysztof
  • 1988, Dekalog, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Poland
  • 9 Comments

3.5 stars

The third episode of ‘Dekalog’ is good but not great, and doesn’t resonate as powerfully as the first two.

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December 19, 2018May 5, 2019 by Eternality Tan

Dekalog: Four (1988)

  • Criterion Collection, Kieslowski, Krzysztof
  • 1988, Dekalog, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Poland
  • 9 Comments

3.5 stars

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’.

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December 19, 2018August 9, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Dekalog: Five (1988)

  • Criterion Collection, Kieslowski, Krzysztof
  • 1988, Dekalog, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Poland
  • 9 Comments

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.

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5.
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December 19, 2018August 1, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Dekalog: Six (1988)

  • Criterion Collection, Kieslowski, Krzysztof
  • 1988, Dekalog, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Poland
  • 9 Comments

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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Rating: 4.5 out of 5.
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