This section contains 3,418 words (approx. 12 pages at 300 words per page) |
![]() |
SOURCE: "Kieslowski's Seeing I/Eye," in The Polish Review, Vol. XL, No. 1, 1995, pp. 53-60.
In the following essay, Garbowski discusses Kieslowski's use of point of view in his films.
There is a scene in Bleu [Blue], the opening film of Krzysztof Kieslowski's trilogy Trois couleurs [Three Colors], which shows the director's mastery of unspoken dialogue with the viewer. The film's heroine Julie is sitting on a Parisian park bench facing the street. Following a whiteout, we see a bent elderly lady on the sidewalk slowly walking toward a bin with a plastic bottle in hand. She can barely reach the opening in order to dispose of the bottle. The viewer has been cued previously by the "blue-outs" that the white-out has to do with the three colours of the trilogy.
The problem dealt with in this vignette is "equality," or rather lack of it. On the one hand...
This section contains 3,418 words (approx. 12 pages at 300 words per page) |
![]() |