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A Short Film About Love
Directed by
Krzysztof Kieślowski
Not Rated
1988
87m
Drama
,
Romance
8.1
95%
93%
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A naive inexperienced young man spies on a woman who lives across the courtyard, and falls in love with her. He starts using tricks which he hopes will lead to them meeting.
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Cast of A Short Film About Love
Grażyna Szapołowska
Magda
Olaf Lubaszenko
Tomek
Stefania Iwińska
Grandmother
Piotr Machalica
Roman
Artur Barciś
Young Man
Stanisław Gawlik
Postman
Tomasz Gradowski
Rafal Imbro
Bearded Man
Jan Piechociński
Blond Man
Krzysztof Koperski
Gasman in Magda's Apartment
Krzysztof Kieślowski
Director / Writer
Krzysztof Piesiewicz
Writer
Ryszard Chutkowski
Producer
A Short Film About Love Ratings & Reviews
CinePassion
Fernando F. Croce
A moral tract, like Krzysztof Kieslowski's other Dekalog expansion, though physical contact here revolves around the brutality of emotion, rather than killing -- the results are no less visceral.
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
For most of the movie, you'll think Tomik is a pretty sick puppy. But Kieslowski's skill as a spare, cerebral film maker is to turn your perceptions around.
City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul
Rob Nelson
A Short Film About Love, despite its title, has more to do with guilt and remorse and manipulation; it might not be about love at all.
Antagony & Ecstasy
Tim Brayton
Far more compelling and beautiful than the Dekalog episode which shares its story.
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
There is more real feeling in this brief feature than in a hundred full-length Hollywood romantic comedies.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
It's an absolutely stunning film that blows you away with its droll humor and its uncovering of sublime emotional truths.
Filmcritic.com
Christopher Null
It's an interesting fable though for a film about "love" it feels awfully cold, not to mention lacking a certain amount of realism. Still, solid performances and a good script redeem it considerably.
New York Times
Stephen Holden
Its picture of a world where people spy on one another reverberates with a post-cold-war paranoia, evoking the chilling notion that privacy, like love, may also be just an illusion.
TV Guide
A creepy adolescent (Olaf Lubaszenko) obsessively spies on an older woman (Grazyna Szapolowska) until a strange symbiosis develops between the two.
San Francisco Chronicle
Edward Guthmann
It's well-crafted and satisfying, even if it lacks the depth of Red.
Combustible Celluloid
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Some of the new footage feels like unnecessary outtakes, but Kieslowski also changes certain edits around.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
A remarkable 1988 Polish feature expanded by Krzysztof Kieslowski from his film The Decalogue.
San Francisco Examiner
Gary Kamiya
Overall, Kieslowski has crafted a compelling portrait of love, that weed that forces its strange way through life's hardest cement.
Not Coming to a Theater Near You
Rumsey Taylor
For the characters in this film, love is a feeling of attachment and necessity, an emotion that is potentially harmful.
Slant Magazine
Eric Henderson
It speaks with the tranquility of a parable.
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