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  Review by russman ★★★½ 1

  I can confirm that the movie did end

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  Review by Conchobarre ★★★★

  Atmospheric and grim, it’s amazing to me that No End was even made. Set in Soviet Block 1982 Poland just after martial law started and made in 1984, I had to pause early on to google “Polish history”. It's even more turbulent than I’d realised but inspirational too. One of the two plot lines concerns a man facing trial for his links with the labour union/social reform organisation, Solidarnosc and the other is about the recent widow of his lawyer, Ula (Grazyna Szapolowska) and how she’s coping with grief.

  The film has complex political ideas and is working on several levels but it also totally works as a simple, sad drama. It’s just that while I watched I knew I…

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  Review by Cormac 👑 ★★★★ 25

  NO END marks an all-new artistic chapter for Kieslowski. A departure from the altogether mortal realism that he had since been scrambling to become divorced and disconnected from by deliberation. At once, raising the bar in terms of his own artistic expression and giving in to a more otherworldly, spectral existence where the powers at play are less of our own universe but something else entirely. It’s a fine line to thread when you note that this is still very much rooted in the historical context of the time — I’m referring to, of course, the societal malaise felt as a result of martial law in Poland — that which colours every emotion and feeling within and affords an added…

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  Review by BrandonHabes ★★★½ 1

  NO END is a difficult film to process. You almost need a really strong working knowledge of Polish political history to glimpse the message behind its ghostly, borderline mystical framing. On the surface, a woman grieves over the unexpected death of her husband, whose lingering presence may serve to guide and mend her growing despair. Below the surface, her grief feels mapped to a larger, national conflict between memory and political integrity. Her loss lives in sympathetic dialogue for Poland's working class, who she now has an opportunity to protect by assuming her husband's political allegiance. 

  In life, he was a lawyer for dissidents; in death, he becomes an angel sent to influence his wife to watch over those same…

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  Review by Zegan ★★★★

  Grażyna Szapołowska, my favorite kind of milf oopsss...

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  Review by Milez Das (Rohit Shivdas) ★★★★

  Loss becomes a part of life, moving on with that life becomes more difficult. You see the person, feel him, the memories that start to haunt you. You are in a state where you can breakdown easily.

  Urszula has just lost her husband Antek, she s trying to cope with that fact. Trying to see the reason. She goes through his old photos, his work, books etc.

  Antek's last case is of man Darek who is imprisoned for his strike. Darek struggles with the fact on what to accept in this state. While Antek's replacement and his mentor Labrador tries to manipulate and convince Darek to take a plea.

  Urszula looks around her self, trying to forget yet at same…

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  Review by Zegan ★★★★½

  You lied, Mr. Kieslowski; the movie ended after 108 minutes have passed.

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  Review by 👽 Zara 👽 ★★★★

  antek was like yeah i could have gone back to my body but i was like nah luv i’m good

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  Review by PopcornIdeology ★★½ 5

  This film walked so Ghost with Patrick Swayze could run.

  5.8 / 10

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  Review by smallclone ★★★ 1

  Low tier Kieslowski. The Ghost of a recently died lawyer visits his grieving wife who needs to contact another lawyer to defend a man who organized a factory strike.

  There is alot of Polish political subplot, so I think unless you have an in depth knowledge of the political Landscape in Poland at the time, alot of the subtext will go over your head, as it probably did mine. It does however have the trademark Kieslowski ethereal / spiritual other worlldiness tone.

  It also has the coolest movie poster I've ever seen.

  6.5/10

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  Review by _woodyy_ ★★★★ 2

  Yet another remarkable film by Kieślowski. So far, this guy hasn't disappointed me, even for once. Like his other feature, "No End" is a meticulously crafted, and eye-catching film dissecting human nature, human behavior, and human emotion thoroughly. The film is about the state of martial law in Poland after banning the trade union Solidarity in 1981. Even though the context of the film is purely political, it works superbly solely on a personal level. While playing Preisner's symphonic scores in the background, Urszula Zyro, the polish translator, grieves for her recently deceased lawyer husband. As she tries to move on, she starts to discover the truth, her inner emotions, desire, and guilt.

  "No End is Kieslowski’s dry run for…

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  Review by rudi ✨ ★★★★½

  Grażyna Szapołowska looked like polish Kirsten Dunst I could not believe it