Dekalog - Krisztof Kieslowski

10 commandments to which you should obey one: watch it once
We were discussing a few days ago why British TV among others would never broadcast such long series (10 films-10 hours or more), save under such a title as "the Director who started Polish Cinema". Maybe French-Germanic Channel ARTE would include it under "Cinema of Resistance - directors of Soviet-time Poland"?
But what is it made for - posthumous distribution is part of the saddest logic of the cultural industries worldwide, particularly flourishing with the 'remaining' powerful institutions of culture (yes, they often make it sound like like it's dying out). Or What? - Mozart will remain with EMI, and Kieslowski with Poland.
Discovering a Cinema before a country follows a strange logic. It's probably wise to say we don't need to know to discover anymore.

Dekalog, work of the same man who directed and wrote "L'amateur - Camera buff", is full of words evaporating on our screens like the haiku of an old Japanese poet - Poland has a poem to its history.