1988 ‘Krótki film o miłości’ Directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski
19-year-old Tomek whiles away his lonely life by spying on his opposite neighbour Magda through binoculars. She's an artist in her mid-thirties, and appears to have everything - not least a constant stream of men at her beck and call. But when the two finally meet, they discover that they have a lot more in common than appeared at first sight...
En liten film om kjærlighet, Brève histoire d'amour, A Short Film About Killing, 사랑에 관한 짧은 필름, 愛情影片, 情路長短調, Кратък филм за любовта, Krátký film o lásce, Ein kurzer Film über die Liebe, Μικρή Ερωτική Ιστορία, No amarás, یک فیلم کوتاه درباره عشق, Lyhyt elokuva rakkaudesta, סיפור קצר על אהבה, Rövidfilm a szerelemről, Krótki Film o Milosci, Não Amarás, Короткий фильм о любви, En liten film om kärlek, Aşk Üzerine Bir Film, Короткий фільм про кохання, 爱情短片
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South Korea18
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Finland
Germany
Netherlands
Poland
South Korea
USA
"Are you seeing someone?"
A Short Film About Love is also a short film about looking. Through it, Kieślowski engages in a dialogue between Love and Look in at least three different registers, and the result is a thoughtful and intriguing study of the way we look at the world and how these ways of looking inform our desire. It's no mere coincidence that both the posters for the film here on Letterboxd and over at IMDb feature the idea of someone's eyes being manipulated by love.
Plot & Character
First and most obviously, A Short Film About Love is about looking in the sense that it simply depicts the story of a man looking at a woman. The plot follows…
This is a short film about what love is not: women as observed sex object; women catering to solipsistic male sex fantasies; tolerance for stalking and sexual harassment; the assumption that women yearn for any attention no matter how harmful. The film is worth watching for Kieslowski's skillful use of composition, lighting and color but it is a study of dated values that have been challenged by feminist ideology and gender politics.
kieślowski asking the real questions: what if rear window was not only creepy but depressing as hell
Love is such a wondrous feeling and perhaps the most important one in this entire world. Love towards a blood relative can be understood and reasoned but love for an unknown person is magical, inexplicable; something that is truly captivating and probably the first feeling that makes us listen to what our heart says. The blossoming of a tender first love is just like a flower; full of hope, flawless beauty and unadulterated purity, it does not know what lies ahead nor does it want to know. It remains expectant of bearing fruit; never boggles its mind with thoughts of how weak and powerless it actually is against the unforgiving , chancy nature of the world, and always brimming with…
+Ne istiyorsun?
-Bilmem.
+Beni öpmek mi istiyorsun?
-Hayır.
+Belki de sevişmek istiyorsun?
-Hayır.
+Beraber geziye mi gidelim? Mazurya'ya ya da Budapeşte'ye?
-Hayır.
+Öyleyse ne istiyorsun?
-Hiç.
+Hiç mi?
-Hiç.
beautiful shots, gorgeous shots. seems like every anti social boy's wet dream. like a "promiscuous" woman isn't going to fall in love with her stalker just because he's tender, doesn't want to fuck her, and cums in his pants the first time he touches her. it's just not gonna happen bro.
"Thou shalt not commit adultery."
There is an impossibility to relate to what doesn't belong to us; everything is an irrational impulse, originated, in this case, by the illusion of having similarities with another lost person, but the impossibility is meant to become evident at some point, and hence Tomek's harmful decision near the conclusion out of shame when his opportunity physically came without being able to handle it. The "opposites attract" law does not exist, but "similar persons attract" is not a law either; the intertwining personality coincidences will sooner or later collide negatively. Here we have two nude souls seeking for something that hasn't been even determined by them, because love is undetermined and therefore nonexistent: she says…
Kieslowski… you might just be my favourite filmmaker.
but seriously, after seeing this, he is at least in my top three. it has to be one of the most beautiful studies and explorations of any subject i believe i’ve ever seen. it took hold of my heart and my empathy and twisted it, morphing it into exactly what it wished, turning me into a puppet for this short amount of time, trapped within the whirlwind of love.
i still have tears in my eyes.
….
voyeurism as a concept and an exploration of it in terms of love. how we all become so entranced with the unknown that we can’t help but want to know more, can’t help but wish…
not only was Kieślowski the only person able to copy and paste an entire film and get away with it, the madman actually managed to do it twice
Protip: women actually won't be turned on when you tell them you've stalked them for a year.
