A Short Film About Love
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 23 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 11, 2004
- Originally Released: 1988
- Label: Kino Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Olaf Lubaszenko, Artur Barcis & Grazyna Szapolowska | |
Directed by | Krzysztof Kieslowski | |
Edited by | Ewa Smal | |
Screenwriting by | Krzysztof Kieslowski & Krzysztof Piesiewicz | |
Composition by | Zbigniew Preisner | |
Cinematography by | Witold Adamek |
Entertainment Reviews:
A remarkable 1988 Polish feature expanded by Krzysztof Kieslowski from his film The Decalogue.
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Chicago Reader
A moral tract, like Krzysztof Kieslowski's other Dekalog expansion, though physical contact here revolves around the brutality of emotion, rather than killing -- the results are no less visceral.
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CinePassion
Well aware that Hitchcock and Michael Powell have been down these streets before him, Kieslowski turns in an absolutely masterly movie that yields equal parts of humour and wry emotional truth.
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Time Out
Rating: 3.5/4 --
For most of the movie, you'll think Tomik is a pretty sick puppy. But Kieslowski's skill as a spare, cerebral film maker is to turn your perceptions around.
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New York Daily News
Rating: 3/5 --
It's impressive and provocative film-making, but ultimately the dispassion and the pessimism may render you little more than a detached observer.
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Radio Times
Rating: 4/5 --
As the power shifts between the watcher and his subject, between romantic love and carnal lust, Kieslowski taps into the most intimate, fragile areas of human relationships with gripping and often suprisingly humourous results.
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Empire Magazine
Its picture of a world where people spy on one another reverberates with a post-cold-war paranoia, evoking the chilling notion that privacy, like love, may also be just an illusion.
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New York Times
Product Description:
In this complex character study about desire and obsession, young Tomek (Olaf Lubaszenko) becomes fixated on his neighbor Magda (Grazyna Szapolowska). After his spying on her leads to more dangerous activities, like prank calls and taking her mail, Tomek decides to confess his desire to her. Though Magda at first feels repelled by Tomek's actions, she soon becomes involved in the fantasy and the two have sex. Unfortunately, the realization of his fantasy causes psychic turmoil for Tomek, who attempts suicide. What happens next in this twisted tale could never be predicted.
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- UPC: 738329034023
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