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Dekalog 1: I Am the Lord Thy God, Thou Shalt Have No Other God But Me (TV)

Dekalog, jeden - Dekalog 1

1989

Krzysztof Kieślowski

Henryk Baranowski, Wojciech Klata, Maja Komorowska, Artur Barcis ...

8.0

4,086

Drama Ten-year-old Pawel and his father Krzysztof run their lives on their beloved home computer, while Pawel's aunt worries that his spiritual education is being neglected. But Pawel is too busy enjoying life, not least thanks to his father's Christmas present of a pair of ice skates, because the computer has calculated that the frozen lake is safe to skate across... Dekalog is a series of 10 one-hour films, each inspired by one of the Ten Commandments. [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Wally Hammond Time Out	"Kieslowski's moving drama unfolds with all the force of a metaphysical ghost story (...) The performances and direction are calibrated to perfection"
		Scott Tobias AV Club	"The devastating tale of a father who relies on his computer to determine whether it's safe for his boy to go ice skating"
		David Ehrlich IndieWire	"'Dekalog' is one of the cinema’s greatest marvels of engineering (...) [It] is tinged with an ineffable sense of wonder and curiosity."
		Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"[Kieslowski] deals with those parts of life that are universal (...) The faces are where the life of the films resides (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"
		Jake Cole Slant	"The biblical root of the series may suggest didacticism on its face, but whatever morals are advanced are ambivalent (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"
		Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"What elevates 'Dekalog' is not only that it deals with the most serious questions of life, death and belief but that it knows how passionate and dramatic these explorations can be made."

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