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…
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