Sadness and a complex vision of realization twisted around and around until they're virtually the same thing.

"I have a God; there's only enough of Him for me."
-Bardini to Janda

The good deed becomes the sacrfice, a woman who truly believes she can love two men at once. This one has all the makings of something preachy or MOW - - - and is little more than a low-key morality tale told with clarity and objectivity.

More cleverness than heart, too much discussion of events which don't take place onscreen weighs the film down. A husband's promise to his wife at the end has a severe sincerity few directors can boast.

A terrific premise, more like White than any of the other volumes. The cleverness transcends whatever goopiness that remains, the ending justifies how Kieslowski's steering the film away from the ever looming (and fatal) forthright and obvious.

Browning film, time shifting techniques and a matter of fact style apart from any of the other entries, this volume makes a case against the death penalty - murder in all forms, no exceptions - without pulling punches or clouding the issue. This kind of purity is rare in any shape or form.

Able to make this seemingly standard premise comprable to Monsieur Hire into a ravishing, almost impeccable study of the duality of emotional attachment and detachment, Kieslowski shows off his chops here by proving once and for all that he can make any simplicity he is challenged with into a thought-provoking reflection on places we can't see to study. Within.

 Though too simplistic in suggesting the duality of the term - which was not the case in Volume 5 (an entry which took the same sort of route), this film works in characters and characters alone. Each a strong center and a weak-kneed semblence of regret. Each with the kind of devious - and honorable - plans on their lips tthat they believe will improve their lot. They sputter up and down on rather standard poles which never get more complex than they appear - but these people managed to keep me interested.

Perhaps if the story had been translated more clearly, the whole thing would have been a ton more enjoyable, still, I get where its going and it is a rather fascinating premise. One of the weaker, talkier additions to the bunch.

A clever, twisting story about a recently impotent philanderer who pressures his wife into taking a lover - unaware that she already has one. The power of love and what it transcends manages to come over loud and clear - as well as the morality - while the story never loses the suspense and interest Kieslowski has lined it with.

Maybe one of the best of the bunch, a grand story about two brothers who realize they have a fortune in stamps and then turn their lives inside out over it. The kind of double-crosses Mamet mind find interesting were the two criminal in some way - but in Kieslowski's context, the message slides under the surface and enters almost without us knowing it.