The eighty-sixth TV show: #420 Dekalog
For this entry, we watched a ten part series set in a tower block in Warsow, focused on the ten commandments. It's an anthology with some overlapping characters, but independent stories. It means the stories differe a lot in where they go and what happens, but there's this vague link in themes. The stories are usually quite small and human. Some about an affair that barely gets resolved, or searching for a missing lover. Others take it a bit larger, dealing with death and depression, but it always stay local, with a few characters involved, in situations that could - and probably are - real life. It makes them that much more relatable and through that more effective.
This is helped by the cinematography. While the writer and director is the same for all of them, this probably being one of his big works, the cinematographer changes for nearly each episode (there are nine, one of them handled two episodes). It shows in how different the episodes feel and how experimental some can get. It creates enough of a distinction between them to make them mini movies - which I suppose is what they really are.
It's a wonderful series that you can't imagine being made under some specific circumstances, but it's a worthwhile watch to gets you from time to time and manages to make you think as well. It's a masterpiece of its own.