Kieslowski

Ula now takes Jacek to school. She clutches him tight before sending him on his way. He runs in with his friends joyously, but then turns back and waves to his mother before he goes. As is true with most Kieslowski children, Jacek is kind and emotionally intelligent. We next

There’s not an ounce of sentimentality in Kieslowski’s “No End.” The director confronts us immediately with the death of a father, with candles in a graveyard, with the spectral images of a man lingering in the house of his family. Hands dominate. It’s the first thing we

I’ve decided to dedicate my next film series to a movie I’ve overlooked — Krzysztof Kieslowkski’s 1985 film “No End.” This is the last movie Kieslowski made before the Dekalog — although it doesn’t appear so in his filmography. “Blind Chance” was released in 1987, having sat on

While the segment by segment part of my Kieslowski project has come to a close, I still have a lot of work to put in before I’m ready to publish it all in a book. Part of this will happen out of sight of this webpage — I’ll be

It’s universally acknowledged as a great film ending, but there are some strange elements in the conclusion to “Three Colours: Red” that need to be addressed upfront before I describe it. The first is that it works even if you haven’t seen any Kieslowski film before — including the

This is the heart of the movie and perhaps the entire “Three Colours” trilogy. Joseph and Valentine are still talking inside the theater where the fashion show took place. He says that he used to come to this theater often and sat in the loge section, where he was for