Now it's been rediscovered, shown at several venues over the last six months and released on video, and there's no reason to miss this profound, beautiful and sometimes painful series of films. In Polish with English subtitles. The films are inspired by the Ten Commandments, but the connection is never explicit. There's no film that simply illustrates the punishment you'll suffer if you, for example, covet your neighbor's wife. Instead, most of the films put characters into situations in which they cannot obey one commandment without breaking others.
Every story is a moral dilemma with grippingly human consequences.
As with most of Kieslowski's films, you've got to pay attention to the details as well as the big picture. There is also beautiful filmmaking technique and signs of the brilliance that would make Kieslowski one of the world's most intelligent and haunting filmmakers.