Double Lives, Second Chances
The Cinema of Krzysztof Kieslowski 

Annette Insdorf (Author)

9780810129481, Northwestern University Press

Paperback / softback, published 30 October 2013

256 pages, 61 black & white images
20.2 x 13.5 x 1.7 cm, 0.32 kg

“An invaluable introduction to one of the greatest of all filmmakers.” —Roger Ebert

“Perceptive, empathetic, enigmatic, Krzysztof Kieslowski was perhaps the great filmmaker of our time, and in Annette Insdorf—who knew him, translated for him, and thoroughly understands his work—he has been rewarded with a writer who couldn’t be better suited . . .” —Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times

Krzysztof Kieslowski (1941 – 1996) is widely recognised as one of the greatest filmmakers of the latter half of the twentieth century. Beginning as a documentarian who took on controversial subjects in communist Poland in the 1960’s and 70’s, Kieslowski gained an international reputation with his later narrative films The Double Life of Veronique and the Three Colours trilogy (Blue, White, and Red). He also made the Decalogue, a celebrated series for Polish television.

The first comprehensive analysis of Kieslowski’s entire body of work to be published in English, Annette Insdorf’s book still stands as the best introduction to a uniquely gifted artist.