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A Short Film About Love

Krótki film o milosci (A Short Film About Love)

1988

Krzysztof Kieślowski

Grazyna Szapolowska, Olaf Lubaszenko, Stefania Iwinska, Piotr Machalica

7.8

5,947

Drama "A Short Film about Love" is the feature length version of a film in Kieslowski's "Decalogue". It tells the story of a young man (Tomek) and his obsession with an older woman (Magda) who lives in the apartment across the street.

	Author	Review
United States	Stephen Holden The New York Times	"'A Short Film About Love', which has rich, subtly shaded performances by Mr. Lubaszenko and Miss Szapolowska, has a bleak eloquence."	POS
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"[A] remarkable Polish feature (...) A relationship that becomes more complex and takes on certain overtones recalling 'Rear Window'"	POS
United States	Jami Bernard New York Daily News	"Kieslowski's skill as a spare, cerebral film maker is to turn your perceptions around (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Edward Guthmann SFGATE	"What we encounter in 'A Short Film About Love' is some of the magic, surprise and metaphysical fancy that Kieslowski later brought to his masterwork, 'Red'."	POS
United Kingdom	Tony Rayns Time Out	"Kieslowski turns in an absolutely masterly movie that yields equal parts of humour and wry emotional truth. As an account of love in the late 20th century, it's in a league of its own."	POS
United Kingdom	Alan Morrison Empire	"Kieslowski taps into the most intimate, fragile areas of human relationships with gripping and often suprisingly humourous results (...) A near-masterpiece (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Eric Henderson Slant	"[Its] exquisite sense of auto-erotic compartmentalization takes on a greater resonance, as Tomek’s deification of Magda flips the bibilical sex roles around (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS

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