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The Decalogue Box Set

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The Decalogue Box Set (1988)

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Reviews Counted: 27

Fresh: 27

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Average Rating: 9.4/10

Runtime: 10 hrs

Genre: Foreign Films

Synopsis: One of the greatest and most ambitious cinematic achievements, Krzysztof Kieslowski's THE DECALOGUE consists of 10 short films inspired by the Ten Commandments. Each film takes place in and around... One of the greatest and most ambitious cinematic achievements, Krzysztof Kieslowski's THE DECALOGUE consists of 10 short films inspired by the Ten Commandments. Each film takes place in and around the same area of late-20th-century Warsaw, provoking timeless ethical and moral questions for this era. Specifically, the films address personal issues dealing with family, friends, love, life, and death. Winner of awards from the Venice, São Paulo, and Cannes film festivals and originally made for Polish television, Kieslowski's masterwork has been screened all over the world to international acclaim. The video release will give viewers the opportunity to revisit each episode and discover characters from the other films that pop up in the background of the current story and might also help to better explain the mysterious presence of Artur Barcis, a quiet onlooker who might be an angel or a devil. Kieslowski, collaborating with cowriter Krzysztof Piesiewicz, has made a series of films that feel small and intimate yet are actually epic commentaries on modern human existence, making THE DECALOGUE a lasting work of art. [More]

Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski

Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Screenwriter: Krzysztof Piesiewicz
Composer: Zbigniew Preisner

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Release:

Aug 19, 2003

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DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • Keep Case
  • Full Frame - 1.33
  • Single Side - Dual Layer

Additional Release Material:

  • Interviews - 1. Krzysztof Kieslowski - Director
  • 2. Roger Ebert - Film Critic
  • Behind the Scenes Footage
  • Featurette - 1. KIESLOWSKI KNOWN AND UNKNOWN
  • 2. KIESLOWSKI MEETS THE PRESS
  • Printed Booklet

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... a stone masterpiece.

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10/29/07
Philip Martin
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04/27/07
Andrew Sarris
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Not only ranks as one of the most ambitious and challenging film works ever attempted, but one of the most rewarding and unforgettable.

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Emanuel Levy
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Far from being morality tales, these short stories are closer to parables — at least, they are as confounding and strange as Jesus' parables were to his first hearers.

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06/14/04
Steven D. Greydanus
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07/25/03
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07/25/03
Walter Chaw
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Highly ambitious, and though every 'episode' may not be up to par as are others, it still remains a risky and commendable work.

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07/10/03
Greg Muskewitz
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Most of the films put characters into situations in which they cannot obey one commandment without breaking others. Challenges you to figure out how to be a moral person in a world with no easy answers.

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03/11/03
Joshua Tanzer
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12/19/02
Brandon Judell
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Kieslowski gives cinematic voice to ethical problems in a way that perhaps no other director does. These films are bleak, somber, downbeat in theme, but pose problems we need to think about.

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10/21/02
Jean Lowerison
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Who knows how often you'll actually want to watch the whole thing, but it's masterful film-making nonetheless.

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08/07/02
Luke Y. Thompson
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Amongst the greatest stories ever told. No serious film scholar can afford to miss it.

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07/21/02
Collin Souter
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See part of it, or see all of it. Just be glad it's around.

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01/10/02
Chris Vognar
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The Decalogue finds Kieslowski and co-scenarist Krzysztof Piesiewicz turning a delicate cycle of intimate, funny, heartbreaking, and compassionate works into a symphony of human fallibility.

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05/29/01
Scott Tobias
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An overwhelming psychological and spiritual epic for our times.

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03/20/01
Michael Wilmington
Chicago Tribune
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Some of the dramas raise issues of violence and sexuality that may disturb some viewers but remind us that the human failings addressed by the commandments challenge our consciences today as much as in Old Testament times.

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02/21/01
David Sterritt
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