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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Body (2015)
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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)
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.
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’.
