The Cinema of Krzysztof Kieślowski: Variations on Destiny and ChanceWallflower, 2004 - 191 pages Since his death in 1996, Krzysztof Kieslowski has remained the best-known contemporary Polish filmmaker and one of the most popular and respected European directors, internationally renowned for his ambitious Decalogue and Three Colors trilogy. In this new addition to the Directors'Cuts series, Marek Haltof provides a comprehensive study of Kieslowski's cinema, discussing industrial practices in Poland and stressing that the director did not fit the traditional image of a "great" East-Central European auteur. He draws a fascinating portrait of the stridently independent director's work, noting that Kieslowski was not afraid to express unpopular views in film or in life. Haltof also shows how the director's work remains unique in the context of Polish documentary and narrative cinema. |
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... Polish viewers . The elimination of politically minded cinema from distribution and the growing importance of locally - made popular genre films prompted several Polish critics , who supported the thematic preoccupations of the ...
... Polish critics as an apt reflection of the state of minds of the pre - Solidarity era . Due to its shelving , however , instead of introducing an intellectual ferment to Polish cinema , it became , as Tadeusz Sobolewski puts it , ' a ...
... Polish society , critics , regardless of their political stance , attacked the film and as a consequence it received no prize at the 1985 Festival of Polish Films.38 This can be attributed to the film's complex poetics , its mood of ...
Contents
Documenting the Unrepresented World | 1 |
Kieślowski and Polish Cinema in the 1970s and 244 | 24 |
Choices Chances and Politics | 53 |
Copyright | |
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