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	A Short Film About Love - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A Short Film About Love (Polish: Krótki film o miłości) is an expanded film version of the sixth episode of director Krzysztof Kieślowski's 1988 Polish language ten-part made-for-television drama, The Decalogue.
		The film, set in Warsaw, is about obsession, with a storyline that explores the themes of love and voyeurism through an examination of the relationship between a young man and an older woman that begins when he spies on her sex life through a telescope from his bedroom window across a courtyard to her apartment.
		There are many theories about who this mysterious character is, from suggestions he is God or a guardian angel right down to him just being an oridinary man who just by pure coincidence happens to appear in every episode.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/A_Short_Film_About_Love (385 words)

	Krzysztof Kieslowski
		When Veronique begins to receive mysterious packages from an unknown admirer, she believes that she is deeply in love, and that the source is the answer that would fill the inexplicable and sudden void in her life.
		As in Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker, the visual otherworldliness of the film is a representation of the exploration of the subconscious.
		This is a film of intoxicating beauty and profound revelation that continues to unfold long after the conclusion.
	www.filmref.com /directors/dirpages/kieslowski.html (2185 words)

	joetsang.net: The Film I Love Most - Kieslowski's "A Short Film About Love"
		To me, the film is about the fragility of love and the consequence of a moment's decision.
		At the same time, she was flattered by the pure love from this young man. And it was obvious that she had a certain affection towards him as well.
		In short, Kieslowski focused on the irony, the contrast between Tomek and Magda, and the reversal of roles.
	www.joetsang.net /art/love/love.html (1174 words)

	A Short Film About Love - Kino on Video
		Hailed by the Chicago Tribune as “unique, finely wrought and moving,” Krzysztof Kieslowski’s (The Double Life of Veronique) A Short Film About Love is a film that serves as both an expansion and a re-invention of one of the most powerful episodes in the director’s renowned Decalogue TV series.
		For A Short Film About Love, Kieslowski added a newly written ending, altered from that of the Dekalog episode, which restructures the narrative.
		Tramway (1966, 5 min.) A short film by Kieslowski, in Polish w/English subt.
	www.kino.com /video/item.php?film_id=663 (340 words)

	DVD Times - A Short Film About Love
		A Short Film About Love was expanded to a feature length film from an episode of Kieslowski’s Dekalog cycle of films made for Polish television.
		The director would tackle the theme of love in his films again, most obviously in Three Colours Red, where a bitter cynical judge who spies on his neighbours, finds love through the hand of friendship held out to him by a kindly neighbour.
		But even with a much greater budget (this film, A Short Film About Killing and the ten films of the Dekalog cycle were all made on a single budget of $100,000) and with finer actors (Irène Jacob, Jean-Louis Trintignant), Kieslowski still couldn’t make a better film than this.
	www.dvdtimes.co.uk /content.php?contentid=5887 (1459 words)

	Review: Short Film About Killing, A
		A Short Film About Killing, Krzysztof Kieslowski's powerful examination of the nature of murder, was a stunning success at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival, taking home the Jury prize.
		An extended version of Decalogue 5, A Short Film About Killing was one of two features to spring from Kieslowski's ten-part television drama about applying the Ten Commandments to modern-day life (the other being A Short Film About Love).
		There are two murders in A Short Film About Killing: the slaughter of the cab driver, which runs slightly over seven minutes in length (and apparently is the longest murder in the history of cinema) and the execution of Jacek, a scene that lasts about five minutes.
	www.patmedia.net /berardin/movies/s/short_kill.html (764 words)

	Sample great Kieslowski on ‘Short Films’ about killing, love (printable version)
		For those unfamiliar with perhaps the greatest director of the past 20 years, these films might be a less-time-consuming way to sample Kieslowski.
		“Love” is just as good as its shorter version and adds an interesting upbeat ending that expands the possibilities of voyeurism.
		Best yet, each one also contains another short film by Kieslowski (one is his five-minute-long film debut and the other is a strange documentary about a train porter).
	www.rgj.com /news/printstory.php?id=74556 (277 words)

	A Short Film About Love - Arts and Faith
		He says as much to her-- doesn't know what he wants from her except for her to know she loves him-- and the clumsy romantic encounter that precipitates the last act was hardly his idea.
		That she takes his premature ejaculation as a proof that "love" is just the electrical impulses that excite us before we orgasm is a perfect summary of the way her own heart as been twisted, and it's the last moment when her version of love holds any sway.
		In The Decalogue, the film ends with her feeling sorry for him and perhaps wanting to remain in relationship, but with A Short Film About Love, she begins to understand the depth of his love for her through his distant concern and devotion.
	artsandfaith.com /index.php?showtopic=2545 (1267 words)

	Krzysztof Kieslowski - feature films
		The film’s TV premiere took place on Sept. 19, less than three weeks after the signing of the famous “August agreements” in the Gdansk Shipyard and the founding of the Solidarity movement.
		Mosz’s films win prizes at amateur contests, and as his creative talents develop so does his desire to record reality as it really is and not as it is officially reported to be.
		The film merges archival documentary materials and a fictional recounting of a few hours on one day during the “Radom events”, which prompted the establishment of one of the first organized oppositional groups, KOR (Committee for Defense of the Workers, a forerunner of Solidarity).
	www.polishculture-nyc.org /kieslowski_feature_films.htm (5985 words)

	Amazon.ca: Short Film About Killing: DVD: Krzysztof Kieslowski,Olaf Lubaszenko,Grazyna Szapolowska,Jan Tesarz,Zbigniew ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Originally part five of the ten-part Decalogue (1988) based on the Ten Commandments, A Short Film About Killing was expanded and released as a critically acclaimed stand-alone feature, winning two prizes at the Cannes Film Festival.
		Warsaw, ably filmed by the brilliant Slawomir Idziak (the cinematographer of GATTACA), is soaked in green and yellow colours, pestilential, and sometimes oddly beautiful.
		Ultimately, the film's suggestion is deceptively simple: killing, be it for individual gain, or by the State as sanctioned punishment, is murder.
	www.amazon.ca /Short-About-Killing-Krzysztof-Kieslowski/dp/B0001ME576 (631 words)

	The Short Documentaries of Krzysztof Kieslowski
		It was meant to be a film about the fact that in all the mess surrounding us, in all the dirt, ineptness, and human impotence, in which nothing can be fully accomplished, there are still a number of people who achieve a real sense of accomplishment.
		Subtle portraits of seven women: episodes in which each day of the week shows a ballerina of classical dance at work or in rehearsal; but the ages of the dancers vary from the smallest child taking her first steps in ballet to the eldest ballerina who is now a ballet teacher.
		The film’s action does not really develop, because there is no way for it to develop, and that’s why we put in an observer: someone who seems to know everything about these people.
	www.lafilmforum.org /spring2006/5:28/5_28.html (2400 words)

	Flicks
		It is one of the pleasures of this film that the true action heroes are the three women, and that romance with the men takes a back seat to female friendship.
		The supposed war film is actually a critique of the aesthetics of war films.
		Still, it's a remarkably intelligent film, disposing of imperialism, war, jingoism, mindless obedience, and the dishonesty of the social order, with an efficiency that is never didactic or overbearing.
	www.cinescene.com /flicks/flicks012002.html (2371 words)

	DVD - Kieslowski Kino DVD Collection
		A graduate of the Lodz film school, he turned out his first film in 1969 and first captured international attention with "Camera Buff" (1979), a satirical critique of political movie censorship in his native land.
		As the film's hero races down a train platform, the film blossoms into three successful scenarios in which, depending on Witek's catching or missing his train, spawning three completely different futures.
		These versions are significantly different from their short film counterparts, and both films received worldwide, critical acclaimed, theatrical releases.
	www.emanuellevy.com /article.php?articleID=2298 (570 words)

	A Short Film About Love
		This is a very touching film about a woman who discovers the real meaning of love from a young boy who stalks her because he thinks he has no chance with her.
		Sadly, this love is doomed but then it makes you think, can the true romantic love as in the notion of chivalry exist in the real world.
		Krzysztof Kieslowski's "A Short Film About Love" is a story of a young man that likes to watch a pretty, older woman.
	www.student-loans-hub.com /ebooks/isbnB0001ME57Q.html (519 words)

	DVDBeaver.com - DVD Comparison Krzysztof Kieslowski's - A Short Film About Love - Krótki film o milosci DVD Review ...
		Krzysztof Kieslowski made the ten part series of short films for polish TV in the ‘80s called the Decalogue, of which 2 short films were made into feature films.
		Both films were quite popular in the international film festival circuits during its run in the late ‘80s.
		Short film versions of this exist in various regions as part of the Decalogue box set with running time of 58 minutes.
	www.dvdbeaver.com /film/DVDReview/short-love.htm (568 words)

	GENE SISKEL FILM CENTER
		Although FIRST LOVE is documentary, the director acted as provocateur to “arrange those situations the protagonists would have found themselves in anyway,” as the young couple consider and reject abortion, struggle with school and family reactions, get kicked out of a grandmother’s home, and shakily negotiate a new life as parents.
		Kieslowski’s own love for theater, and his early training in the theater-college milieu, are evident in the film’s chaotic atmosphere, rife with petty rivalries and corruption.
		A fictional film that incorporates documentary footage of demonstrations and riots, A SHORT WORKING DAY conjures up the tense mood in an industrial town where the routine announcement of an outrageous boost in meat prices proves to be the last straw for an angry populace.
	www.artic.edu /webspaces/siskelfilmcenter/2006/december/1.html (1638 words)

	Fopp film : dvd : world cinema : Short Film About Love (Subtitled) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		A SHORT FILM ABOUT LOVE was expanded from an episode in director Krzysztof Kieslowski's DEKALOG, his cycle of shorts based on The Ten Commandments.
		A young voyeur falls in love with the older woman he's been spying upon, and, having seen her with a string of lovers, is finally confronted with a sexual invitation from the woman.
		The theme of the commandment against adultery is explored alongside the concepts of love and voyeurism.
	www.fopp.co.uk /product_info.php/products_id/8560 (132 words)

	A Short Film About Love Movie Review
		In the end, it's not clear whether or not Magda has fallen for Tomek, but we recognize that she is experiencing deep pangs of guilt for what she did, and that she craves his return to innocence.
		Love is probably the most commonly presented theme in all motion pictures.
		A SHORT FILM ABOUT LOVE is the exception, and what a magnificent exception it is. With actors that give finely-tuned performances and a script that is richly detailed, the movie is nothing short of a masterpiece.
	www.killermovies.com /s/ashortfilmaboutlove/reviews/280.html (853 words)

	Short Film About Love, A (Subtitled) DVD review - Time Out Film (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Like A Short Film About Killing, this is a movie spin-off from Kieslowski's ten-part TV series The Decalogue, each segment of which sardonically re-examines one of the Ten Commandments.
		It's about a 19-year-old postal clerk who covets the slightly older woman in the flat opposite, to the extent that he keeps his astronomical telescope fixed on her windows and spends his every free minute glued to its sys-piece.
		As an account of love in the late 20th century, it's in a league of its own.
	www.timeout.com /film/dvd.php?id=79925&redirect=true (205 words)

	DVD Talk Review: A Short Film About Love
		A Short Film About Love was initially created as an episode of Kieslowski's Decalog, a series of ten films made for broadcast on Polish television.
		A Short Film About Love is presented in its original Polish mono mix with removable and typo free English subtitles.
		It's easy to care about the characters and everything that happens in the film is completely plausible (save for the technical goof involving the lighting of the window).
	www.dvdtalk.com /reviews/read.php?ID=10601 (783 words)

	Amazon.ca: Short Film About Love: DVD: Krzysztof Kieslowski,Olaf Lubaszenko,Grazyna Szapolowska,Artur Barcis,Stefania ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Made six years before his final film, Red, Krzysztof Kieslowski's A Short Film About Love foreshadows Red with not only themes of fraternity featured the final chapter of his beloved Three Colors trilogy, but with the same poetic technique that has made Kieslowski's best work so astounding.
		The film acts as both an introduction to the phenomenal cinematic craft of Kieslowski and as proof of his immense talent for any admirer.
		A Short Film About Love is an astonishing film.
	www.amazon.ca /Short-Film-About-Krzysztof-Kieslowski/dp/B0001ME57Q (387 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: A Short Film About Love [1988]: DVD: Grazyna Szapolowska,Olaf Lubaszenko,Stefania Iwinska,Piotr ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Krysztof Kieslowski’s A Short Film About Love was expanded from one of the most lyrical episodes in Dekalog, his celebrated cycle of short films based on the Ten Commandments.
		As he did with Dekalog 5 (which was extended to A Short Film About Killing) Kieslowski extended the sixth episode of his influential Polish TV series into this intriguing study of voyeurism and repressed emotions.
		Dekalog 6/A Short Film about Love was the first Kieslowski work I watched- reminiscent of Hitchcock's Rear Window & elements of Lynch's Blue Velvet (1986) it is set in the same desolate housing block found in all the Dekalog films.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Short-Film-About-Love/dp/B00009Z52N (941 words)

	notcoming.com \| A Short Film About Killing
		There are two deaths in Krzysztof Kieslowski’s A Short Film About Killing: a taxi driver is strangled by an adolescent male, who is later sentenced to death in the same manner.
		These occur over a year apart, but because of the manner in which Kieslowski arranges his film — each half is devoted to each killing — it is implied, despite the context and motivation for each death, that there is little difference between them.
		This dialectic is its strongest in A Short Film About Killing (Decalogue V in its original incarnation), and this is one of a preeminent filmmaker’s most vital films.
	www.notcoming.com /reviews.php?id=192 (645 words)

	A Short Film about Love - Krzysztof Kieslowski (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		An examination of a scene from Krzysztof Kieslowski's feature-length adaption of a short movie in his Dekalog, "A Short Film about Love" (Krotki film o milosci).
		The sequence ends with Magda opening her eyes, possibly realising that she would be incapable of loving Tomek, because she would want more than an innocent love, or possibly realising that she would be content with the innocent love.
		Earlier in the film she mirrors Tomek's stealing letters by lying to Magda about the telephone and keeping Magda away from him.
	cuboidal.org /movies/essays/ashortfilmaboutlove (1837 words)

	Combustible Celluloid - Kieslowski's 'Short Films' (1988)
		Kino's A Short Film About Love DVD is presented letterboxed, whereas Facets' Decalogue DVD is shown in the full-frame television ratio.
		Kieslowski filmed this particular episode in a kind of haze, with shadows overcoming whole chunks of the frame.
		The A Short Film About Killing DVD comes with a 17-minute short film, A Night Porter's Point of View (1977), a kind of documentary about the working lives of guards, night-watchmen and other low-level authority figures.
	www.combustiblecelluloid.com /classic/shortfilms.shtml (771 words)

	Krzystztof Kielowski (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.cs.wisc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The film's hero, a lawyer who represented many Poles oppressed by martial law, is dead at the film's opening.
		Partially set, like the rest of the series, on a Warsaw housing estate, A Short Film About Killing is a grim and powerful tale drawing formal parallels between the act of murder and the workings of the criminal justice system.
		A more conventional art house item, the film, not surprisingly, gave his career greater international exposure than ever before as it strikingly and intensely paralleled the lives of two remarkably similar women who appear to be doppelgangers.
	www.1worldfilms.com.cob-web.org:8888 /krzystztof_kielowski.htm (514 words)

	A Short Film About Love (1988) - Channel 4 Film review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Krzysztof Kieslowski's film, like A Short Film About Killing, was part of an ambitious series of films for Polish television revolving around the Ten Commandments, but expanded for feature release.
		The ironic title (the film is not particularly short at 86 minutes) refers to sexual obsession rather than love.
		The film exemplifies Kieslowski's precise, often cold, method for opening up and exploring the habits of humans, exposing the scars of damaged emotions.
	www.e4.com /film/reviews/film.jsp?id=108267 (309 words)

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