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Krzysztof
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Director / Screenwriter |
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1941 - 1996 |
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Born June 27,
Warsaw, Poland |
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Key
Production Countries: Poland, France
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Key Genres: Drama,
Psychological Drama, Romantic Drama |
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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) |
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Highly Recommended: Dekalog
(1988)*, A Short Film About Love (1988), Three Colours: Red (1994)* |
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Recommended: Camera
Buff (1979), No End (1985), A Short Film About Killing (1987)*, The Double Life of Veronique (1991)*,
Three Colours: Blue (1993)* |
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Worth a Look: Blind
Chance (1981), Short Working Day (1981), Three Colours: White (1993)* |
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* Listed in TSPDT's
1,000 Greatest Films
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Links:
[
Amazon
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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) ] |
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Books: [
Kieslowski
on Kieslowski ] [
Krzysztof
Kieslowski ] [
Double
Lives, Second Chances: The Cinema of Krzysztof Kieslowski ] |
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"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)
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"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) |
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"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) |
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"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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"Of
all European directors of recent decades, Krzysztof
Kieslowski is the most obvious legatee of the high
seriousness that we associate with
Ingmar
Bergman and
Andrei Tarkovsky. He pushed
traditional European art cinema in the face of Hollywood
dominance and the burgeoning auteur cinemas from other parts
of the world... Dekalog
made
Kieslowski's name, and provided the material that led to
A Short Film About Killing (1987) and A Short Film
About Love (1988). In these films Kieslowski began to
elaborate a theme of interconnectedness that would be key to
his oeuvre. If his narrative reticence and obscure images
have generated criticism, they have equally been praised for
the thematic ambiguity and density they bring to his work."
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Richard Armstrong, The Rough
Guide to Film |
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Top 250 Directors |
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Matters) |
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501 Movie Directors: A
Comprehensive Guide to the Greatest Filmmakers |
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See Also |
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Krzysztof Kieslowski's Favourites |
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Citizen Kane (1941)
Orson Welles,
The 400 Blows (1959)
François Truffaut,
Intimate Lighting (1965)
Ivan Passer,
Ivan's Childhood (1962)
Andrei Tarkovsky,
Kes (1969)
Ken Loach,
The Kid (1921)
Charles Chaplin,
A Man Escaped (1956)
Robert Bresson,
The Musicians (1960) Kazimierz Karabasz, The Pram (1963)
Bo Widerberg,
La Strada (1954)
Federico Fellini.
Source:
Time Out (1995) |
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