Wednesday, July 20, 2011

The Decalogue by Krzysztof Kieślowski

Here is another recommendation for your film-viewing enjoyment. It was originally broadcast on Polish TV. Netflix has this, both the theatrical version and the TV version. Rent the TV version. Once again, going to use Wikipedia to describe it:
The Decalogue (PolishDekalog) is a 1989 Polish television drama series directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski[1] and co-written by Kieślowski with Krzysztof Piesiewicz, with music by Zbigniew Preisner.[2] It consists of ten one-hour films, each of which represents one of the Ten Commandments[3] (according to their Roman Catholic division) and explores possible meanings of the commandment—often ambiguous or contradictory—within a fictional story set in modern Poland. The series is Kieślowski's most acclaimed work[citation needed] and has won numerous international awards, though it was not widely released outside Europe until the late 1990s.[4] Filmmaker Stanley Kubrick wrote an admiring foreword to the published screenplay in 1991.[5]

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