A Short Film About Killing (Krzysztof Kieslowski; Poland, 1987)
- When
- Fri Aug 15, 2014
- Where
- PFA Theater
- Time
- 7:00pm
- Cost
- $5.50 - $9.50
- Tags
- Movies, Foreign, Film Screenings
Description
Digital Restoration!Disturbing and deeply pessimistic, A Short Film about Killing has inspired anguished debate wherever it has shown. This absolutely uncompromising attack on capital punishment "follows the movements of three apparently unconnected characters: an unemployed adolescent, a taxi-driver, and a young lawyer whose paths mysteriously cross as they become protagonists in an intense drama of life and death. The film is organized around two different crimes: first, the killing by the youth, and second, the killer's execution carried out by prison authorities with equal attention to detail, leaving the young lawyer to consider his own complicity in a death sanctioned by the penal code. Intricate detailing of the flow of events leading to these two irrevocable acts adds a human dimension, rendering the characters as vulnerable to a crime as to its punishment" (Dimitri Eipides).
• Written by Kieslowski, Krzysztof Piesiewicz. Photographed by Slawomir Idziak. With Miroslaw Baka, Krzysztof Globisz, Jan Tesarz. (86 mins, In Polish with English subtitles, Color, DCP, From Milestone Films)
More Info
- Link
- http://bampfa.berkeley.edu/film/FN20742
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- (510) 642-1412
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