Krótki film o miłości

"Krótki film o miłości" is a longer version of an episode of Kieślowski's television series "Dekalog." Kieślowski altered the ending from the original ending. Olaf Lubaszenko plays a nineteen-year-old young man who has fallen with an older woman who lives across from him in a group of high-rise apartment buildings. The first shot of the movie is of him asleep in bed with his wrist bandaged. He works in the post office and sends her notices that she has a money order waiting at the post office. He does this because he wants to see her up close. His name is Tomek. He has been watching her from his window with a telescope. The woman, played by Grażyna Szapołowska, has several lovers with whom she has sex in her apartment. Tomek lives with the mother of a friend. The friend has travelled abroad. Tomek gets a job delivering milk in the morning to have a chance of seeing her. He is very vulnerable. He seems very naive. He could be seen as a stalker, but he would never hurt her. At first the woman is upset when she learns what he has been doing, but she learns about his true nature. In one of their encounters when he is delivering milk she invites him into her apartment, but he is too shy. Eventually he does ask her out for ice cream. They talk about how he started watching her. His friend had showed her window before he left. He also talks about having grown up in an orphanage. He has an interest in languages, he has studied Bulgarian, English, French, Italian and Portuguese. She asks him if he masturbates when he watches her. He says that he used to but no longer does so. They go back to her apartment. After she showers she explains that when a woman is excited by a man she gets wet inside, and she was in that state with him. She mentions that she is wearing nothing under her robe. He is clothed. She kneels between his legs with her hands on his legs. He ends cumming in his pants. He is embarrassed and runs back to his apartment and cuts his wrists. This explains the opening shot. This scene is more tender than it sounds when put in words. She realizes that she has hurt him more than she had intended. This is a very moving movie that handles with sensitivity themes that could be handled crudely. The music by Zbigniew Preisner is beautiful and adds a lot to the mood of the film. I am touched very deeply each time I watch this movie.