A Short Film About Love

Kieslowski explores love not as romance but as an act of truly seeing another person. An absolute antidote to A Short Film About Killing, this cinematic gem is delicate and restrained, inviting us to experience the tender yet voyeuristic side of love. We observe a lonely young man watching a woman across the street, and what begins as a quiet act of watching her from afar transforms into a fragile encounter between two vulnerable people.

Both A Short Film About Love and A Short Film About Killing are feature-length adaptations of The Decalogue, a TV series Kieślowski created for Polish TV. First broadcast in late 1989, it arrived as Poland was emerging from decades of Communist rule, marking a historic cultural shift.