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EPISODE
Dekalog - Season 1 Episode 02: Dekalog, dwa
Ten one-hour films describe the moral problems at austere housing project in 1980s Poland
5 January 1930, Milanówek, Mazowieckie, Poland
29 April 1950, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
27 June 1952, Torun, Kujawsko-Pomorskie, Poland
4 August 1935, Czechowice-Dziedzice, Slaskie, Poland
17 July 1961, Brzeziny, Lódzkie, Poland
April 03, 2017
In terms of form, Decalogue II displays a notable preference for telling insert shots, from the leaves that the wife rips off her houseplant to the torturous drips of water on the metal footboard of the husband's hospital bed.
April 03, 2017
Kieslowski goes beyond the Commandments' specifics... and turns each episode into a slice of life carved out of a community of late-Communist-era Poles living in a high-rise apartment complex in Warsaw.
April 03, 2017
In this ethically charged drama, writer/director Krzysztof Kieslowski shows the danger of taking the Lord's name in vain, either by playing God ourselves or by handing over our God-given powers to others.
April 03, 2017
As in Dekalog 1, the film's power comes from the precise, economic delineation of character and circumstance.
April 04, 2017
Somewhat roundabout on the whole.
April 05, 2017
Here, as elsewhere in the series, the dramatic engine is the contrast between two characters. Kieslowski connects the two with one of his signature big, fluid camera moves.