Movie review • Dekalog : How to live by Krzysztof Kieślowski
Krzysztof Kieślowski's Dekalog is a separate work. Its output in restored copy (digital 2K) by MK2 honors all the cinematographic value of what its director has called "the television cycle that uses the practices of the series", intended for broadcast on Polish…
Dekalog Ten : Krzysztof Kieślowski Mini Serie review
On the death of their father, with whom they had little connection, two brothers discover to their amazement the immense value of the stamp collection that this philatelist had built up during his life. Neither Jerzy (Jerzy Stuhr), bourgeois conformist and homebody, nor Artur (Z…
Dekalog Nine : Krzysztof Kieślowski Mini Serie review
Roman (Piotr Machalica) learns from a fellow doctor that he is, due to causes that are not fully exposed, sexually incapacitated for the rest of his life. Married to Hanka (Ewa Błaszczyk), he enjoins her to, if not already done, take a lover. When he discovers clues as to the …
Dekalog Eight : Krzysztof Kieślowski Mini Serie review
The basis of a mistake already committed before the beginning of the film is radicalized here. It is no longer a close story that the episode summons, but the ghosts of the Nazi occupation, the way Polish society has hidden its dark hours of the last century. Warsaw becomes the …
Dekalog Seven : Krzysztof Kieślowski Mini Serie review
Can you steal what is yours? The rhetorical question at the center of this seventh episode, the best of all. Majka (Maja Barelkowska) is the real mother of Ania (Katarzyna Piwowarczyk), a little girl to whom the first is introduced as her sister, raised by her mother…
Dekalog Six : Krzysztof Kieślowski Mini Serie review
Sixth Episode is the short version of A short story about love (1988), not only shortened but different in both its cut and conclusion. Tomek (Olaf Lubaszenko), a shy young postal worker, spies from the room sublet to him by a friend's mother, a neighbor in the building …
Dekalog five : Krzysztof Kieślowski Mini Serie review
Dekalog Five, in its long version (significantly more violent), shook la Croisette in 1988, revealing to the world a relatively confidential filmmaker outside its borders. The story is diabolically simple. While Jacek (Mirosław Baka) wanders the streets of Warsaw, commits…
Dekalog four : Krzysztof Kieślowski Mini Serie review
Décalogue returns, in the words of its author, to "doubt with certainty", this fourth episode pushes the process to its last entrenchments. It is the validity of a filiation which is questioned here. Dekalog four, first questions the obedience of a child to the po…
Dekalog three : Krzysztof Kieślowski Mini Series Dekalog
While some episodes take their command at face, others take it metaphorically, or secularized. Dekalog three try a hybrid approach. The religious component is very present, although inappropriate (it is not the Sabbath but the Christmas Eve that is under attack). At the same tim…
Dekalog Two : Krzysztof Kieślowski Mini Series Dekalog
Perjury.. It’s not that clear for a while. Long stretches of silence intersect with the information that we collect little by little, forcing us to pay attention to the daily universe surrounding the drama as much as it is. In his building, a doctor (Aleksander Bardini) is follo…
Dekalog One : Krzysztof Kieślowski Mini Series Dekalog
The first episode opens with a pan flute melody by Zbiegniew Preisner, on the edge of a central pond for the history to come, to a mysterious face by the fireside. This diaphanous gaze is that of a young man (Artur Barcis), who will appear in each segment, a silent presence, an…
Movie review • The Double Life of Veronique by Krzysztof Kieslowski
love story, simple and moving. story of a life that continues, leaving one being to perpetuate itself in the body and soul of another being. Just as the heroine Weronika enjoys watching the world upside down, through a star-studded bouncing ball, Véronique’s Double Life calls fo…
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