![]() ![]() His greatest, for me, is The Dekalog, a series of 10 films loosely and agnostically based on the Ten Commandments. By that measure, he has made some truly wonderful films. He says life is made up of contradictions, and a good film - he cites Fellini's La Strada - manages to describe the world as it is while also creating its own world. Has he at least enjoyed the critical acclaim? 'It's not interesting to achieve the ways of achievement are interesting.' Ah, he's quitting because he has achieved so much that making films is no longer a challenge? 'No, I haven't achieved in films and I never will, and therefore I think you have to find the right moment and back away.' After a few minutes, I begin to feel I'm interviewing Beckett's Vladimir, or a Rubic Cube. There is nothing else I can do.'Īfter The Dekalog, The Double Life Of Veronique and the Blue, White and Red trilogy, all written with Krzystztof Piesiewicz, at 52 he is widely regarded as Europe's top film-maker. Something which is useful.' So he's going back to Poland to make shoes? 'No, unfortunately, I don't know how to. ![]() ![]() What is an honourable profession? 'Making shoes, that's honourable. I didn't like the whole film world, an invented, unreal world whose values are completely different to those I'm used to. It's with pleasure that I'm putting film-making aside. He sits in a pool of cigarette smoke, inhales with relish and scrubs out his past. Krzysztof Kieslowski is in top form, full of beans, raring to go. ![]()
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