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| Krzysztof
Kieslowski |
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| Director
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| 1941 - 1996 |
| Born June 27,
Warsaw, Poland |
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Production Countries: Poland, France
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Key Genres: Drama,
Psychological Drama, Romantic Drama |
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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), 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
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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) |
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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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