A Short Film About Love, despite its title, has more to do with guilt and remorse and manipulation; it might not be about love at all.
A Short Film About Love (1988)
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Reviews Counted:13
Fresh:13
Rotten:0
Average Rating:8.3/10
Runtime: 83 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: 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... 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. [More]
Starring: Grazyna Szapolowska, Olaf Lubaszenko
Starring: Grazyna Szapolowska, Olaf Lubaszenko
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Screenwriter: Krzysztof Kieslowski, Krzysztof Piesiewicz
Composer: Zbigniew Preisner
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Reviews for A Short Film About Love
Far more compelling and beautiful than the Dekalog episode which shares its story.
It's an absolutely stunning film that blows you away with its droll humor and its uncovering of sublime emotional truths.
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.
A creepy adolescent (Olaf Lubaszenko) obsessively spies on an older woman (Grazyna Szapolowska) until a strange symbiosis develops between the two.
Overall, Kieslowski has crafted a compelling portrait of love, that weed that forces its strange way through life's hardest cement.
Some of the new footage feels like unnecessary outtakes, but Kieslowski also changes certain edits around.
A remarkable 1988 Polish feature expanded by Krzysztof Kieslowski from his film The Decalogue.
For the characters in this film, love is a feeling of attachment and necessity, an emotion that is potentially harmful.
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