Konterr Brilliant and touching

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Nayan Gough A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Sienna-Rose Mclaughlin The movie really just wants to entertain people.

classicsoncall What year were you born? Who are you? What do you most wish for?These are three questions director Krzysztof Kieslowski asks of approximately forty different people ranging in age from an infant up to an elderly woman who has hit the century mark. Filmed in Poland in 1980, the piece seems to be a reflection of the times. It's a somber film in tone, though the responses one hears carry an uplifting message, in as much as many of the interviewees express their personal desires for freedom, democracy, tolerance, justice, security and peace. These goals transcend an individual's desire for personal fame or riches, an outcome that one might have expected if the film were made today. Or perhaps not. Most of the people answering the questions had a thoughtful approach and appeared to take the questions seriously. Dispensing with a verbal response to the first question, the film short acknowledged the birth year of each respondent, as each successive person was older than the one before. I thought the film ended with an odd yet optimistic response from a hundred year old woman. What did she most wish for? "I'd like to live longer!"

framptonhollis Since I'm enjoying the "Dekalog" films so much, I wanted to check out some of acclaimed Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Kieślowski's other work before continuing the series. Because it has been in my watchlist for a while now, I decided to watch his 18 minute long documentary film "Talking Heads". In the film, many different people are interviewed and speak about their personalities, life, problems, and desires. It's a fascinating and intriguing idea that is executed very well.This film really seems to represent life itself. Sometimes it is funny, sometimes it is sad-you meet many different personalities and you have many different characteristics. In this film, all sorts of people are interviewed from ages 1 to 100. Some of them are happy, others are sad, and all of their moods and emotions clash together beautifully to create a wonderful portrait of the world surrounding us all.

Horst in Translation (filmreviews@web.de) This is a 15-minute black-and-white short film by Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski. He made it in 1980 when he already had a prolific body of work and yet was over a decade ago from his most famous works. In this short documentary, he interviews people about very general, but equally personal questions. The most interesting thing is that he starts with a newborn and then moves back in time in terms of the year in which the interviewees were born. The last one was born in 1880 already. Before her, we hear a woman who just became a widow very briefly before this was made. This was possibly the most emotional moment when she tells that there is nothing she wants from life anymore. She was probably married 50 years or longer and now she is alone. Truly sad. A good little movie and I recommend watching it because I found it interesting what people had to say about life back then. All in all, not too different maybe from what people would answer today and I am actually curious how lives went on for the people in this film. That's certainly a success. Raising interest in the audience is always a strong achievement. Watch it.

paulgeaf This one I think either the very first, or one of the first films by Krzysztof Kieslowski I had ever seen and I remember thinking how incredible this was. So simple. No flashy camera work, three questions and some fascinating answers. Asking ordinary working people some simple questions and yet, you get more of an understanding of real life and the plight or happiness or torture or emotion of the human condition than you will find in any other film. The end is even clever in that it leaves you not knowing whether to feel sad or happy.I loved this film.Only gave it a 9 because well...is there really ever a ten?!