Curent Project: Krzysztof Kieslowski

My next film project will be Edward Yang’s 2000 masterpiece “Yi Yi,” a movie that I’ve seen four times that gets richer and deeper — while feeling shorter — every time I watch it. “Yi Yi” can seem intimidating at first glance. It’s a nearly three hour movie, and

I’ve decided to abandon this project, for the simple reason that I’m getting too annoyed with Kieslowski at this point and really don’t want to color my overall opinion of him. Filmmakers are allowed to make some bad films, even masters, especially early in their careers while

I’m not sure why Ula keeps returning to Joanna’s house to hear more details of the case, but that’s where she goes next. She runs into Joanna’s father, who apparently is on the other side of this union issue — the movie never really explains what that

After the news of the hunger strike, the movie shifts tone suddenly and radically. Up to this point, Ula hasn’t expressed much about her late husband Antek. But we see her in the next scene hurrying to her apartment and then hurriedly tearing through personal effects to find something.

The main information we get out of this section of the film is that Dariusz and other political prisoners have decided to start a hunger strike. He does this against the advice of his lawyer Labrador, who spend the opening scene in this section detailing his legal strategy — one designed

Today I watched a film I’ve never seen before — a 2020 Hungarian film by Lili Horvat called “Preparations to be Together for an Unknown Period of Time.” I watched it this morning, thought it was heavily Kieslowski inspired, found an interview with Horvat where she admitted the influence, then