a ISBN B-00-01ME57-Q
a Original cataloging agency NEU GrandLibrary
a Language code of text/sound track or separate title tur
a Language code of text/sound track or separate title pol
a Classification number DVD 002927
a Personal name Kieslowski, Krzysztof.
a Title A Short Film About Love
h Medium DVD
b Name of publisher, distributor, etc Kino Video
c Date of publication, distribution, etc 1988
a Extent 1 DVD
a Playing time 86 min.
a Summary, etc Unlike the other masterpiece in his Decalogue, Killing, in 'A Short Film About Love' Kieslowski treats the subject of love with an extraordinarily delicate, rather than a polemic, eye. As ever he manages to express more with subtlety than most directors ever will with expression: it is rather what is not said, what is not expressed, that leaves an indelible mark upon us. Olaf Lubaszenko's central performance as the boy is, rather than 'opaque' as it has been termed, engrossing from the start. His innocence and fragility, just like the film's, are an invitation to the intimacy we progressively acquire. We, the film's audience, watch engrossed and exposed just as does he, and, in another sense, does the subject of his observations. His telescope becomes a direct motif; distance, separation, enlargement: all the things the filmmaker provides for the viewer. Thus, at emotional, intellectual and metacinematic levels the film explores its themes: observation and love. While it may not come to solid conclusions (nor ought it to), the sensitivity with which the director watches his actors is utterly compelling. The resultant negotiation between man and women, subject and observer, viewer and filmmaker is a relationship, a love affair. Perhaps Barthes might have sought to go further, waiting for the end of the film, its 'death', to find psychological and sexual consummation to such an affair, and the film may support such a reading. Even a far less academic approach is sufficient, however, in order to enjoy the work at it appears at face value. We do not need to analyse in order to feel, and it is the film's emotional impact that remains when our brief voyeurism, our visit to the cinema, ends.
a Language note Language(s): Turkish, Poish
a Language note Subtitle(s): Turkish
a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Drama
a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Art House and International
a Personal name Szapolowska, Grazyna.
a Personal name Olaf Lubaszenko
a Personal name Stefania Iwinska
a Personal name Piotr Machalica
a Personal name Artur Barcis
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