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...Karol Karol (Zbigniew Zamachowski) and Dominique (Julie Delpy) are hairdressers. She's French and gorgeous; he's Polish and not. They marry; he moves to Paris to be with her; they open a salon. But suddenly he is impotent, and Dominique sues for divorce. When Karol tries to reconcile, she sets their salon on fire and tells the police he did it. He is reduced to begging in the Metro. Could life get worse? Oh, yes. As Karol watches her bedroom from the street, Dominique makes adulterous love and, when he calls, moans her infidelity into the phone. Before...
Home is a former Soviet satellite in its convulsive lurch toward capitalism. Anything is possible for a man with a dream and no scruples about realizing it. Karol plunges into the black market, into real estate and international finance; he comes this close to murder. And all in an elaborate scheme to lure Dominique to Poland for some sweet, fatal revenge...
...part Polish TV series of modern fables, each illustrating one of the Commandments), is in an impish mood here. He finds hairpin turns and deadpan delight in the sexual and political intrigue devised by screenwriter Krzysztof Piesiewicz. And Zamachowski, who has some of Dustin Hoffman's molelike ingenuity, plays Karol Karol (Charlie Charlie in Polish) as a Chaplin figure hatching a Kafka plot...
...heart, White is a Polish joke played on the French. For Kieslowski it can be seen as a declaration of both love and disdain for a foreign country and a language in which he works but which he does not quite understand. In White Karol could be Kieslowski: resourceful, isolated, powerless, homesick. And Dominique could be France: beautiful, haughty, unforgiving, irresistible. "After all she did," Karol says, "I still love...
After Pope Paul VI named him Archbishop of Munich in 1977, Ratzinger found an ally in a fellow Cardinal who shared his view of the church as the bulwark against barbaric atheism and dehumanizing secularism: Karol Wojtyla, the Archbishop of Cracow and the future John Paul II. Both were members of the worldwide Synod of Bishops -- an advisory council to the Pope. In 1980, two years after his accession, John Paul asked Ratzinger to join him in Rome. The Pontiff was turned down -- twice. Finally Ratzinger laid out his conditions. He would come only if he could continue to speak...