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...film stars Zbigniew Zamachowski as the over-grown boy of a man, Karol Karol. Like "Blue," the first movie in this series, "White" begins with the ending of a marriage. In the case of "Blue," Julie's husband and daughter are killed and she must seek and define her own sense of liberty. In "White," Karol's wife Dominique (played by the stunningly beautiful to-die-for Julie Delpy) divorces him, claiming their marriage has not been consummated. With Karol's pathetic, meek confirmation of this fact, he ends his marriage and loses everything: his wife, her love...
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...
...class status in the mid-'80s with The Decalogue (a 10-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...
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