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Krzysztof Kieslowski 

 

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Director / Screenwriter
1941 - 1996 
Born June 27, Warsaw, Poland
Key Production Countries: Poland, France 
Key Genres: Drama, Psychological Drama, Romantic Drama
Key Collaborators: Krzystof Piesiewicz (Screenwriter), Zbigniew Preisner (Composer), Halina Doborowolska (Production Designer), Ryszard Chutkowski (Producer), Aleksander Bardini (Leading Character Player), Artur Barcis (Leading Character Player), Slawomir Idziak (Cinematographer), Jerzy Stuhr (Character Player), Marin Karmitz (Producer), Ewa Smal (Editor)
Highly Recommended: Dekalog (1988), A Short Film About Love (1988), Three Colours: Red (1994)
Recommended: Camera Buff (1979), A Short Film About Killing (1987), The Double Life of Veronique (1991), Three Colours: Blue (1993)
Links: [ IMDB ] [ All-Movie Guide[ Senses of Cinema: Great Directors ] [ Film Reference ] [ Kieslowski Web Network ] [ Kino Kieslowski ] [ A Kieslowski Homepage ] [ Krzysztof Kieslowski's Art of Film ] [ kamera Article (2006) ] [ Close-Up Film Article (2008) ]
Books: [ Kieslowski on Kieslowski ] [ Krzysztof Kieslowski ] [ Double Lives, Second Chances: The Cinema of Krzysztof Kieslowski ]
DVD's: [ Amazon ]
1,000 Greatest Films: Dekalog (1988), A Short Film About Love (1988), The Double Life of Veronique (1991), Three Colours: Blue (1993), Three Colours: White (1993), Three Colours: Red (1994)
  
Dekalog (1988)A Short Film About Love (1988)Three Colours: Red (1994)Camera Buff (1979)
 
     
  "There is no doubting his feeling for things seen and heard; there is no question but that he is a filmmaker, and one following in the steps of Bresson. But, for me, Kieslowski frequently runs the risk of being precious, mannered, and so cold as to forbid touching." - David Thomson (The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, 2002)  
     
  "It seems that most Eastern European directors of the past 30 years have been rebels of one kind or another, and Kieslowski was certainly no exception...To the Western eye, Kieslowski's films offend less against the system than those of some of his contemporaries. And, although in life he was something of a pessimist, his films do not always reflect that attitude. Their characters are constantly faced with making moral decisions and often find the right endings for their lives." - David Quinlan (Quinlan's Film Directors, 1999)  
     
  "Former documentarist Kieslowski's early features were noted for their simple, robust realism, but in his later work, he developed a more ornate, expressionist style, directing attention with painstaking precision to the immediate physical reality of his characters' lives, in order to illuminate an inner world of emotion, thought and premonition." - Geoff Andrew (The Director's Vision, 1999)  
     
  "To tell you the truth, in my work, love is always in opposition to the elements. It creates dilemmas. It brings in suffering. We can't live with it, and we can't live without it. You'll rarely find a happy ending in my work." - Krzysztof Kieslowski  
     
 
 
 
 

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