Finally finished watching Kieslowski's Dekalog this week. For those of you whom I have not rambled at about its brilliance, its a sequence of ten one-hour films, each loosely based on one of the ten commandments, and all set in the same apartment blocks in Warsaw. Two of them were expanded into feature-length films.
I really very strongly recommend them to anyone with any interest in watching a series of intelligent human dramas. Beyond this though, there is a meditative quality to each film, and a beauty in their realisation, both visually and structurally. Recurring motifs such as the mute figure who appears and watches in most of the episodes at some point tie together Kieslowski's "cycle" of films which each deal with different protagonists.
When asked, Stanley Kubrick named the Dekalog as the only masterpiece he could think of in his lifetime. Its tempting to think he was right.
I really very strongly recommend them to anyone with any interest in watching a series of intelligent human dramas. Beyond this though, there is a meditative quality to each film, and a beauty in their realisation, both visually and structurally. Recurring motifs such as the mute figure who appears and watches in most of the episodes at some point tie together Kieslowski's "cycle" of films which each deal with different protagonists.
When asked, Stanley Kubrick named the Dekalog as the only masterpiece he could think of in his lifetime. Its tempting to think he was right.
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