Kieslowski

Elżbieta gets up to leave, she puts on her coat and scarf and thanks Zofia. She asks her if she knows the people to whom she was originally going to be placed back in 1943 — the ones who were accused of collaborating with the gestapo. Zofia, with hesitatation, says that

I will try to put aside my disappointments about this episode for today’s essay and accept it for what it is. I think, on some level, the two Kyrzsztofs who wrote this episode — Kieslowkski and Pietsiewicz — fell in love with a character they created. That isn’t such a

Here’s where episode 8 — the second lowest rated episode in the Dekalog, according to IMDB raters — starts to go off the rails. Recall that as the last segment was coming to an end, there were still many unresolved questions between Zofia and Elżbieta. But it ended on an optimistic

I know that I keep saying how this episode turns out to be a disappointment, but then I note how well done the particular segment is — and the same story applies here. We might expect what just happened to lead to an immediate confrontation. But first we see Elżbieta sitting

I put off writing about this scene yesterday because it is difficult. In the published script for The Dekalog, the two speeches that dominate this segment ended up in the film nearly word for word, so Kieslowski knew that the detail was necessary. So how do I convey every detail

We now reach the “prove me wrong” episodes of The Dekalog, the final three in the series that, at least my first two trips through the series, left me underwhelmed. There are aspects of all three closing episodes that are interesting and worth examining, but each one of these episodes