Word: krzysztof
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...fresh 1930s Los Angeles becomes the ironic avatar of this darkly shadowed tale of multiple rapes - of the land, of a tragically misused woman. Film noir was a tired genre before writer Robert Towne and director Polanski made this, the best and most profound of the breed. Decalogue 1988; Krzysztof Kieslowski Kieslowski illustrates each of the Ten Commandments in an hour-long story. Originally made for Polish TV, those tales, whispering instead of thundering their morals, form, as a movie, a tender and unpretentious epic about ordinary people striving to be good in an indifferent world. Pulp Fiction 1994; Quentin...
DECALOGUE 1988; KRZYSZTOF KIESLOWSKI...
...would be a worthy Palme winner, and Violence an honorable runner-up. These are also the critics' choices. But it's risky for the press to project its preferences onto the Jury. In 1994, most critics we knew were sure the winner would be Red, the imposing climax to Krzysztof Kieslowki's "Three Colors" trilogy. Well, the critics may have seen all three films, but the Jury members hadn't. They and their President, Clint Eastwood, shut out Red and handed the Palme to a film the press savants hadn't even considered: Pulp Fiction. Proving again, that in Cannes...
...again this year). Last November, E.U. finance ministers effectively torpedoed proposed action against France and Germany; last week, the European Court of Justice ruled that they should not have done so. Smaller E.U. countries may cheer - "Situations in which rules are broken should carry precise consequences," says Krzysztof Rybinski, vice president of the National Bank of Poland - but the judgment seems stunningly irrelevant. No one thinks France and Germany will be punished, or get their deficits under the pact's ceiling, anytime soon. And the euro doesn't seem to be hurting from the violations - which raises the question...
...first stories, entitled “Krzysztof,” describes a young cowherd, likely in Poland, who encounters the effects of Nazi occupation. A soldier deduces from Krzysztof’s nervous manner that his identification papers are false, and so the boy must flee through the countryside, seeking refuge in a haystack. The soldier pokes for him with a bayonet...