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02/25/08
The Decalogue Box Set (1988)
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Reviews Counted: 28 Fresh: 28 Rotten:0 Average Rating: 9.3/10
Runtime: 10 hrs
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 the same area of late-20th-century Warsaw, provoking timeless ethical and moral questions... [More]
Genre: Foreign Films
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04/27/07
Not only ranks as one of the most ambitious and challenging film works ever attempted, but one of the most rewarding and unforgettable.
12/26/06
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.
06/14/04
Highly ambitious, and though every 'episode' may not be up to par as are others, it still remains a risky and commendable work.
07/10/03
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.
03/11/03
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03/10/03
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.
10/21/02
Amongst the greatest stories ever told. No serious film scholar can afford to miss it.
07/21/02
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.
05/29/01
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