Three characters, two deaths, one stunning drama. Like A Short Film About Love, 1988's Killing started life as part of the Dekalog series, before being expanded for the cinema. Shot in queasy green and nicotine-stain hues, it's about an act of brutality punished by another that's seemingly just as senseless. Explicit? Yes, but not exploitative, its moral posers gnawing the grey matter while the violence churns the gut. Short it may be, but this lingers long.
DVD Extras:
Insightful interviews with four Kieslowski admirers/collaborators, including DoP Slawomir Idziak (who's gone on to lens Bruck-busters Black Hawk Down and King Arthur). The Polish helmer's remembered as a warm, generous man, which is more than can be said for the subject of his 1978 mini-movie A Night Porter's Point Of View, a short but sour portrait of a pro-hanging people-hater.
