SOURCE: "A Great Polish Film-Maker: Krzysztof Kieslowski," in The Durham University Journal, Vol. LXXXV, No. 1, January, 1993, pp. 131-35.

In the following essay, Millar praises Kieslowski's Dekalog and La Double Vie de Véronique as examples of Kieslowski's greatness as a filmmaker.

Krzysztof Kieslowski is not interested in Sin. In fact, he is not a 'theological' director at all, even though he is best known for his TV series Dekalog (The Ten Commandments) and its spin-off cinema films, A Short Film about Killing (i.e. the fifth commandment, Catholic numbering) and A Short Film about Love (sixth commandment), both 1988. But then who is a theological director? John Ford, with his Irish Catholic sentiments and Protestant hymns? Obviously not. The austere Robert Bresson? Bresson wisely cut out the theological verbiage when filming Bernanos' Diary of a Country Priest, keeping the drama—and the diary itself. (Bernanos' late Mouchette gave him...