The brilliant Polish writer and director ended his career with the spectacular Three Colors trilogy that all students of film should see (the third part earned him an Oscar nomination for best director).
He is perhaps better known, however, for The Decalogue, a Polish TV mini-series where each of the ten parts deals loosely with one of the ten commandments and each protagonist lives in the same Warsaw apartment complex.
All of that is great stuff, but I just unnecessarily watched his A Short Film About Killing which, I found while watching it, is just a slightly longer version of Part 5 of The Decalogue. It would have been as good as his other stuff... if I hadn't already seen it! (i.e. it was good, but I thought was getting new Kieslowski, not recycled Kieslowski). Only watch it if want to substitute it in place while watching The Decalogue. Or just pass all together.
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