Talking Heads (1980) Short Film

Krzysztof Kieslowski interviewed a number of ordinary people (born at various times over the preceding 100 years), asking them who they were and what they wanted from life. (imdb comments)

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Talking Heads belongs to 6 collections
1. Best of criticker: Documentary (public: moderated by avgcrtckr - 17 stars)
2. Harvard University's Suggested Film Viewing List: Non-Fiction Films (public: moderated by dardan - 4 stars)
3. BFI 100 key Documentary films (public: moderated by PeaceAnarchy - 2 stars)
4. Best of criticker: Short (public: moderated by avgcrtckr - 1 star)
5. allah (x4) bu nasıl sevmek (private: egebasaran - 1 star)
6. Movies I Own (private: Farzan)
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"I'm a chemical engineer. But currently, I drink."
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dardan | 60 58% |
Lift (2001) and The Up Series (starts with 'Seven Up!' (1964)) are much better than this.
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Kieslowski has no need for fictional characters when real people are more interesting. You could say it's one of his mottos. Talking Heads is a demonstration of that, a series of interviews sorted chronologically by age with 100 different people. The transitioning of generations happens too quickly with very little youth which gets rid of the most interesting element of this. Aside from that element, all of the answers are the generic platitudes you'd expect from anyone.
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Simple, but very interesting variety in both the actual responses and the attitude and conviction with which they're given. Speaks a lot to how not only attitudes but the way we frame those attitudes changes throughout life.
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A clever idea for a film. tracing the answers to the same two questions from different people in 1980. The film moves chronologically, from youngest to oldest, and we get a sense of the impact of age and experience on answers. Narrow and straightforward at the beginning, broadened and complex in the middle, and then narrowing again at the end. Also, in the years leading up to the fall of communism, the cry for freedom can be heard throughout the film in a variety of ways.
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27 temmuz 09, 13:12. &
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Intriguing and insightful, but also funny... mainly because many of these people are so clueless. Thanks to how easy it is to see short films now thanks to the Internet, this is going to be fodder for 314,097,266 Polish jokes. Mark my words
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Nice to see the filmmaker in collecting stage. He's listening before he started to talk.
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Average Percentile 69.11% from 234 Ratings | ![]() |