Kieślowski

This collection is the first to offer a genuinely interdisciplinary approach to Krzysztof Kieslowski's Decalogue, a ten-film cycle of modern tales that touch on the ethical dilemmas of the Ten Commandments. The cycle's deft handling of moral ambiguity and inventive technique established Kieslowski as a major international director.

This collection is the first to offer a genuinely interdisciplinary approach to Krzysztof Kieslowski's Decalogue, a ten-film cycle of modern tales that touch on the ethical dilemmas of the Ten Commandments. The cycle's deft handling of moral ambiguity and inventive technique established Kieslowski as a major international director.

"Il caso e altre novelle" raccoglie alcuni dei racconti inediti che il regista polacco Krzysztof Kieslowski scrisse per il cinema: le sceneggiature narrative dei primi quattro lungometraggi e i progetti, anch'essi scritti in forma letteraria, dei suoi documentari più importanti. Accanto ai primi film come II personale, racconto autobiografico di formazione teatrale, La tranquillità e II cineamatore, inni all'anelito di libertà dell'uomo e dell'artista e II caso, esemplare riflessione sulle possibilità esistenziali umane e insieme accurato ritratto della Polonia di fine regime comunista, ecco pubblicati qui per la prima volta al mondo i progetti di alcuni documentari come La stazione, Sette donne di età diversa o Teste parlanti..

The three colors are blue, white and red. They are the colors of the French flag, of course, and they are appropriated by director Krzysztof Kieslowski along with the themes of the motto they more or less represent: liberty, equality, fraternity. But the films Three Colors: Blue (1993), Three Colors: White (1993), and Three Colors: Red (1994) are not hymns to patriotism or national identity and the Polish Kieslowski hasn’t any predisposition to making a statement at France. It’s better to think of this trilogy in similar terms as his The Decalogue, ten short films in which he reflects upon the Ten Commandments in terms more suggestive than literal. They are about morality in terms of life in Poland in 1989 and it is that vast collage of life experience in that time and place that is so powerful.