Mehmet Sindel

Stardust | Freeing spirituality: the cinema of Kieślowski

Kieślowski describes himself as agnostic. Although he created a work like “Dekalog”, which takes the Ten Commandments as its direct starting point, he does not turn Catholic teaching into the moral authority of his films. As we see in his own account, what shaped his moral world was not so much Catholicism as the experience of independent thought; the crown of “ethics” is returned to the king who deserves it: spirituality.