A Short Film About Love

A Short Film About Love Polish Krtki film o mioci is a Polish romantic drama film directed by Krzysztof Kielowski and starring Grayna Szapoowska and Olaf Lubaszenko. Written by Krzysztof Kielowski and Krzysztof Piesiewicz, the film is about a young post office worker deeply in love with a promiscuous older woman who lives in an adjacent apartment building. After spying on her through a telescope, he meets and declares his love for this jaded woman who long ago gave up on believing in love. She responds to his innocence by initiating him on the basic fact of lifethat there is no love, only sex. A Short Film About Love is an expanded film version of Decalogue VI, part of Kielowskis 1988 Polish language tenpart television series, The Decalogue. The film is set in Warsaw. The film was selected as the Polish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 61st Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.

Tomek learns there is a problem with the milk deliveries for Magdas apartment complex, so he takes the delivery job to be closer to her. One night he sees her return home after breaking up with her latest boyfriend, spilling a bottle of milk, and then weeping over another failed relationship. Later, Tomek asks his godmother, Why do people cry? After receiving another fake postal notice, Magda has a confrontation with the postmistress who accuses her of extortion. When Magda walks away upset, Tomek follows her and admits that he has been leaving the fake postal notices, that he saw her crying, and that hes been watching her. That night, Magda arranges her bed so that Tomek can see her with another boyfriend. When theyre in bed, she tells him that theyre being watched by someone across the way. The boyfriend rushes down to the street, calls out to Tomek who comes downstairs, and then punches him in the face for peeping.The next day, while delivering milk to Magda, Tomek admits that he loves her and that he expects nothing in return. Overwhelmed by his feelings, Tomek rushes up to the roof of the building, and then returns to Magdas apartment and asks her for a dateand she accepts. An elated Tomek races through the courtyard with his milkcart. During their date at a cafe, Magda learns that Tomek has been watching her for a year and that he stole letters mailed to her by an old boyfriend. At first shes upset, but then she dismisses it saying, What does it matter. In response to his earlier declaration of love, she tells him that love doesnt existonly sex. She shows him how to caress her hands the way lovers do. ........

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