19-year-old Tomek whiles away his lonely life by spying on his opposite neighbour Magda through binoculars. She's an artist in her mid-thirties, and appears to have everything - not least a constant stream of men at her beck and call. But when the two finally meet, they discover that they have a lot more in common than appeared at first sight...
It's well-crafted and satisfying, even if it lacks the depth of Red.
– Edward Guthmann,
San Francisco Chronicle,
7 Aug 2004
fresh:
A remarkable 1988 Polish feature expanded by Krzysztof Kieslowski from his film The Decalogue.
– Jonathan Rosenbaum,
Chicago Reader,
7 Aug 2004
fresh:
Its picture of a world where people spy on one another reverberates with a post-cold-war paranoia, evoking the chilling notion that privacy, like love, may also be just an illusion.