City Life

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still from Blind Chance (Krzysztof Kieslowski, PL 1981)

still Blind Chance (Krzysztof Kieslowski, PL 1981)

still from La double vie de Véronique (Krzysztof Kieslowski, FR/PL 1991)

still La double vie de Véronique (Krzysztof Kieslowski, FR/PL 1991)

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still from Trois couleurs: Rouge (Krzysztof Kieslowski, FR/PL/CH 1994)

still Trois couleurs: Rouge (Krzysztof Kieslowski, FR/PL/CH 1994)

Krzysztof Kieslowski on the set of City Life (Krzysztof Kieslowski, NL 1990)

still from City Life (Krzysztof Kieslowski, NL 1990)

still City Life (Krzysztof Kieslowski, NL 1990)

poster City Life (Agresti, Altorjay, Guerin, Kieslowski, Klopfenstein, Kotetishvili, van Leeuwaarden, Pennell, Rijneke, Reichenbach, Sen, Tarr, M'Baye, NL 1990)

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Kieslowski’s early masterpiece shows us various, chance-determined outcomes for a human life. Witek runs after a train. Using this ordinary event, Kieslowski outlines three possible outcomes for the medical student’s life.

Kieslowski shot his first metaphysical masterpiece, Blind Chance, before he made a name for himself with the epic Dekalog series of films and the Trois couleurs trilogy. The captivating drama shows how difficult it is to reconcile political ideals with personal happiness. Witek (the magnetic Bogusław Linda) is a medical student with an insecure future in communist Poland. Kieslowski dramatizes Witek’s life journey as a series of different opportunities, thereby suggesting that our lives are just as controlled by chance as they are by so-called freedom of choice.

Blind Chance

Trois Couleurs: Rouge was the final film shot by great director Krzysztof Kieslowski, who died in 1996. Jean-Louis Trintignant and Irène Jacob star as the grumpy former judge and the young model who unexpectedly become friends. 4K restoration.

This year, distributor Cherry Pickers will release four digitally (4K) restored films by Krzysztof Kieslowski (1941 - 1996) (4K): La double vie de Véronique (1991) and the Trois couleurs trilogy (1993/1994) inspired by the colours of the French flag.
The three episodes entitled Bleu, Blanc and Rouge are subtle, associative meditations on the core values of the French Revolution: freedom, equality and brotherhood. Juliette Binoche, Julie Delpy and Irène Jacob play the female leads. In Trois couleurs: Rouge, Jean-Louis Trintignant stars opposite Jacob.

Trois couleurs: Rouge

Kieslowski’s breakthrough with international cinema audiences came with La double vie de Véronique. Irène Jacob plays the singer Weronika who has a French double, Véronique, with the same heart problems. One of them dies, the other receives a mysterious cassette tape.

This year, distributor Cherry Pickers will release four digitally (4K) restored films by Krzysztof Kieslowski (1941 - 1996) (4K): La double vie de Véronique (1991) and the Trois couleurs trilogy (1993/1994) inspired by the colours of the French flag.
La double vie de Véronique was the first film the major Polish director made after the fall of the Berlin War. It was also the first Kieslowski film to star French actress Irène Jacob (Trois couleurs: Rouge, Al di là delle nuvole by Michelangelo Antonioni) in an impressive double role.
Jacob plays both Weronika and Véronique. One lives in Cracow, the other in Paris. Both are (classical) vocalists with great futures ahead of them, both have the same heart condition. Weronika dies during a performance, which affects Véronique: she stops singing and receives a cassette tape from a mysterious stranger.

La double vie de Véronique

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Renowned Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski directed the section on Warsaw for the four-hour episodic film City Life, a project by Dick Rijneke and Mildred van Leeuwaarden. Rijneke will be present at the screening to talk about this collaboration with Kieslowski.

Twelve cities from around the world are included inCity Life, the monster project in which internationally renowned filmmakers from Mrinal Sen (Calcutta) to Béla Tarr (Budapest), Carlos Reichenbach (Sao Paulo) to Ousmane M’Baye (Dakar) were invited to take part by Dutch filmmakers and initiators Rijneke and Van Leeuwaarden.

His successful films La double vie de Véronique as well as his Trois couleurs trilogy featuring French stars Irène Jacob, Juliette Binoche and Julie Delpy revolve around kinship, identity and coincidence.

City Life

Alejandro Agresti, Gábor Altorjay, José Guerin, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Clemens Klopfenstein, Tato Kotetishvili, Mildred van Leeuwaarden, Eagle Pennell, Dick Rijneke, Carlos Reichenbach, Mrinal Sen, Béla Tarr, Ousmane M'Baye / NL, 1990 / 240 min.

Renowned Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski directed the section on Warsaw for the four-hour episodic film City Life, a project by Dick Rijneke and Mildred van Leeuwaarden. Rijneke will be present at the screening to talk about this collaboration with Kieslowski.

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Blind Chance

La double vie de Véronique

Trois couleurs: Rouge

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