Kieślowski

British  

/ kiˈʃlɔfskɪ /

noun

1. Krzysztof (ˈkrɪʃtɔf). 1941–96, Polish film director, whose later films were made in France; his work includes the television series Decalogue (1988–89) and the film trilogy Three Colours (1993–94)

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Example Sentences

Burns envisioned the series as a climate-change version of “Dekalog,” the 10-part miniseries from Polish director Krzysztof Kieślowski, in which each episode covers one of the Ten Commandments.

From Washington Post • Mar. 17, 2023

No one is going to mistake Botoks for Ida, Pawel Pawlikowski’s haunting 2014 Oscar-winner, and Vega is no Krzysztof Kieślowski.

From The Guardian • May 3, 2018

Talking in his Brooklyn townhouse, we try to think of comparisons: I come up with Kate Atkinson’s Life After Life; he mentions a film by Krzysztof Kieślowski.

From The Guardian • Jan. 20, 2017

The award is bestowed by an annually rotating jury of esteemed film industry figures, which included icons like Wim Wenders, Sally Field, Georges Delerue, and Krzysztof Kieślowski the year Streep won.

From Time • Jan. 9, 2017

In the past, Binoche has said she prefers working with independent auteurs – Kiarostami; Krzysztof Kieślowski; Michael Haneke – rather than Hollywood directors owing to her frustration with the way mainstream American films depict women.

From The Guardian • Jul. 31, 2011