SOURCE: "Through the Lense of a Polish Filmmaker," in The Christian Science Monitor, March 25, 1994, p. 15.

In the following review, Mason recommends Kieslowski on Kieslowski "for film buffs, students, or anyone interested in the cultural history of Eastern Europe."

Starting out as an innovative, intellectual documentary filmmaker, Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski evolved into one of the great artists of the contemporary European cinema.

Kieslowski gained international prominence with his Decalogue, a series of 10 films based on the Ten Commandments made for Polish television. His The Double Life of Véronique made in France with French actors catapulted him to critical acclaim. Three Colours is a new series of films based on the colors of the French flag—blue, white, and red—symbolic of liberty, equality, fraternity. The first of these films, Blue, is an elegant, fully realized work of art—a mysterious investigation of the inner life of its...