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A Short Film About Love (1988)

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Reviews Counted: 12 Fresh: 12  Rotten:0 Average Rating: 8.4/10

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Runtime: 83 mins

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 dangerous activities, like prank calls and taking her mail, Tomek decides to confess his desire to... 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]

Genre: Foreign Films

Starring: Grazyna Szapolowska, Olaf Lubaszenko

Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Screenwriter: Krzysztof Kieslowski, Krzysztof Piesiewicz
Composer: Zbigniew Preisner

DVD Info

Release:

May 11, 2004

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Region [unknown]
  • Keep Case
  • Anamorphic Letterboxed Widescreen - 1.85

Additional Release Material:

  • Interviews - 1. Grazyna Szapolowska - Star
  • 2. Annette Insdorf - Collaborator
  • 3. Emmanuel Finkiel, 2nd Unit Director on Kieslowski's Trois Couleurs Trilogy
  • Featurettes - 1. "Tramway" - Short Film
  • 2. "Theatrical Trailer"
  • 3. "A Kieslowski Trailer Gallery"

Text/Photo Galleries:

  • Filmography - 1. Krzysztof Kieslowski

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Far more compelling and beautiful than the Dekalog episode which shares its story.

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08/04/08
Tim Brayton
Antagony & Ecstasy
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4/4

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06/10/08
James Berardinelli
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It's an absolutely stunning film that blows you away with its droll humor and its uncovering of sublime emotional truths.

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09/05/07
Dennis Schwartz
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Christopher Null
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06/24/06
Derek Adams
Time Out
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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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08/30/04
Stephen Holden
New York Times
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4.5/5

A creepy adolescent (Olaf Lubaszenko) obsessively spies on an older woman (Grazyna Szapolowska) until a strange symbiosis develops between the two.

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08/13/04
TV Guide's Movie Guide
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3/4

It's well-crafted and satisfying, even if it lacks the depth of Red.

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08/07/04
Edward Guthmann
San Francisco Chronicle
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Overall, Kieslowski has crafted a compelling portrait of love, that weed that forces its strange way through life's hardest cement.

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08/07/04
Gary Kamiya
San Francisco Examiner
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3.5/4

Some of the new footage feels like unnecessary outtakes, but Kieslowski also changes certain edits around.

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08/07/04
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid
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A remarkable 1988 Polish feature expanded by Krzysztof Kieslowski from his film The Decalogue.

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08/07/04
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Chicago Reader
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For the characters in this film, love is a feeling of attachment and necessity, an emotion that is potentially harmful.

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04/19/04
Rumsey Taylor
Not Coming to a Theater Near You
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It speaks with the tranquility of a parable.

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03/20/04
Eric Henderson
Slant Magazine
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