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Krzysztof Kieślowski
Interviews
Edited by Renata Bernard and Steven Woodward
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Krzysztof Kieślowski’s untimely death came at the height of his career, after his Three Colors trilogy of films garnered international acclaim (and an Oscar nomination), and he had been proclaimed Europe’s most important filmmaker by many critics. Born in 1941, he was only fifty-four years old when he died.
Kieślowski himself tried to tell the story of his life and career in the 1993 book Kieślowski on Kieślowski. This collection, by contrast, reveals the shifting voice of a filmmaker who was initially optimistic about his social and cultural role, then felt himself buffeted by the turbulent politics and events of the People’s Republic of Poland. As described in the chronology in this book, he found himself subject to the “economic censorship” of post-Communist filmmaking.
How Kieślowski responded at each moment of his life, what he tried to achieve with each of his films, is finely detailed in thirty-five selections. These pieces bring together his thesis from the famous Lodz film school, a manifesto written just before the dark days of martial law in Poland, diary entries from the first time he was working outside Poland, and numerous rare interviews from Polish-, French-, and English-language sources.
About the authors:
Renata Bernard is coeditor of Diasporas of Australian Cinema and has published in KinoKultura and Senses of Cinema.Steven Woodward is professor of film, media, and literature at Bishop’s University in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. He is editor of After Kieślowski: The Legacy of Krzysztof Kieślowski.
See the publisher website: University Press of Mississippi
See the complete filmography of Krzysztof Kieslowski on the website: IMDB ...
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