The Cinema of Krzysztof Kieslowski: Variations on Destiny and Chance:The Cinema of Krzysztof Kieslowski: Variations on Destiny and Chance

2005 ◽  
Vol 59 (2) ◽  
pp. 61-62
Author(s):  
David Sterritt
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Author(s):  
Raquel de Araujo Roble

The objective of this study is to analyze the significance of the color blue in the film “Liberty is Blue”, by the Polish director and screenwriter Krzysztof Kieslowski and the imagetic result reached through the interface between cinema and arts. This is the first film of the Three Colors Trilogy.In order to develop this analysis, semiotic concepts will be used, for the understanding of image as icon and color as symbol. The methodology consists in selecting images to analyze the meaning of the blue color in certain moments of the work where color gains relevance. The theoretical from of reference includes concepts of Charles Sandres Peirce, Lucia Santaella and Luciana Martha Silveira.


2000 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 681
Author(s):  
Lisa Di Bartolomeo ◽  
Paul Coates ◽  
Annette Insdorf
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Author(s):  
Krystian Przybylski

Iwona Siekierzyńska school film Missy takes up the theme of a girl’s unfulfilled love for a priest. Her dog named Ledwosz not only accompanies her in the experience of encountering the man in cassock, while his anointing of a sick neighbor, but also triggers the situation that caused her infatuation. This brief and accidental contact with the priest turns out to be a breakthrough experience for the teenage girl looking for love and attention. It means her entering the adult world in which it is easy to miss a crucial moment, or hurt somebody’s feelings quite unconsciously. The young girl’s experience of the brief encounter will remain in her forever. The relation between the female character and her dog from the short film was the inspiration to consider the similarities between Missy and Three Colors: Red, by Krzysztof Kieślowski, who was the artistic supervisor of Siekierzyńska’s film. In both films it is a dog that initiates the process resulting in metaphysical experience for the main characters.


Author(s):  
Radosław Dąbrowski

Krzysztof Kieślowski and Ingmar Bergman belonged to different generations of film authors, but there was a certain artistic kinship between them. They were both interested in issues related to human existence, but their films also seem similar in terms of their aesthetic dimensions, in particular, their cinematographic style. Both directors also created films deriving from their private experience, often creating characters on screen who seem to be in some respect their alter egos. This articles deals with various similarities between the cinema of Kieślowski and Bergman.


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