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 / Poland
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Mr. Jones (2019)
Good but not great, this handsomely-mounted biopic about a Welsh journalist’s news-breaking report on the Ukrainian famine of the early ‘30s under Stalin is a welcome introduction to a murky and disturbing part of 20th-century history.
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Corpus Christi (2019)
Love, forgiveness and redemption weigh heavily in this Oscar-nominated religious-based drama about a young sinner who unexpectedly poses as a priest in a small Polish town.
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Suicide Room (2011)
A disturbing and occasionally powerful look at youths with suicidal tendencies through the off/online realms that they inhabit.
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Body (2015)
This precise drama by one of Poland’s foremost female directors is wryly comic if also conceptually peculiar as it explores grief and the afterlife against a father-and-daughter narrative.
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Pianist, The (2002)
One of Polanski’s finest films, and a great WWII Holocaust drama about human resilience, and the beauty and power of music to overcome sheer adversity.
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Offside (2019) – Guest Review
Continue reading →The story of a female football team as they prepare for competition season told in a straightforward manner – without turgid narratives about femininity or victory.
Ida (2013)
This black-and-white Polish Oscar winner is shot with a spare, understated elegance, but sometimes at the expense of narrative depth.
Cold War (2018)
Continue reading →Well-crafted with dazzling black-and-white cinematography, and certainly a film to appreciate, but it is emotionally vacuous.
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.
