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Inside Rooms: 26 Bathrooms, London & Oxfordshire, 1985 (1985)
26 Bathrooms, 26 Letters, 26 Minutes
26 Bathrooms is a witty, light little film that must be seen be those who appreciate Greenaway's darker, more allegorical works. Simultaneously satiric and celebratory, the lighter side of his humanism washes through this quirky quasi-documentary of our most fundamental bodily needs and the spaces we create to fulfil them.
Dekalog: Dekalog, piec (1989)
A modern parable
"Thou shalt not kill." The fifth in Kieslowski's film meditations on the ten commandments, Dekalog 5 is a wretched, wrenching tale about crime, conscience and punishment. It is an all-too-straightforward and unflinching story of a nineteen-year-old boy who commits a brutal murder. Still, as in all the Dekalog films, the real story is behind the story somehow, lying in wait for the thoughtful viewer.
Dekalog: Dekalog, dwa (1989)
A modern parable
"Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain." The prognosis of a man languishing in a Warsaw hospital from cancer holds the key to the fate of his wife and her unborn child. In this, the second of his meditations on the ten commandments, Kieslowski again fashions a small, intimate ensemble piece into an exploration of the metaphysical and spiritual agonies of modern human life.
Dekalog: Dekalog, jeden (1989)
A modern parable
"I am the Lord thy God. Thou shalt have no other gods but me." One of the world's great humanist filmmakers, Kieslowski gives us a story of a rationalist father, a spiritualist aunt, and a boy trying to come to terms with their conflicting views of the world. The boy's father, a college professor, allows his son to go ice skating after proving to himself through physics that the ice is safe. Through Kieslowski's eyes, this seemingly small, simple plot affords a vehicle for metaphysical questioning and psychological exploration on a grand scale.