Karol arrives at a subway station and walks a long platform until he is in between tracks — this system looks very similar to the Chicago Transit Authority’s blue line inside the loop. He eventually runs into Mikolaj and he asks him if the guy still wants to go through
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The autobiographical elements of “Annie Hall” were so strong, that the title character assumed the second half of the lead actress’s real name. Diane Hall took the name Diane Keaton for the stage and screen — an appropriate tribute to the great silent era comic actor/director Buster Keaton — and
Woody Allen wrote a very moving tribute to Diane Keaton, you can access (free subscription required) at this link. The whole piece is worth reading, but this part in particular really blew me away: As time went on I made movies for an audience of one, Diane Keaton. I never
Nearly everything I know about Eastern European culture is based on what I read and watch. I’ve made one very brief trip to Warsaw that, to be honest, felt a lot like modern day Chicago to me, so I can’t extrapolate much of anything from it. But this
Karol is still holding onto that 2 franc piece, but as this segment opens, he is down by the river at night and contemplating tossing it in — perhaps a final goodbye to the French adventure that turned out so badly for him. But he can’t bring himself to throw
Kieslowski decided not to show us what Karol needed to steal before his flight back to Warsaw. It’s a plaster sculpture of a woman who bears some resemblance to Dominique that he saw in a store window. We don’t immediately know where Karol is as we watch an