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A masterpiece. A strong foreshadowing of THE DECALOGUE, LA DOUBLE VIE DE VÉRONIQUE and the Trois Couleurs trilogy, NO END is a powerful work which combines spiritual and political concerns in its treatment of a difficult theme: life after death. A young, liberal Warsaw lawyer is killed in a car crash. He becomes the ghostly witness of all that unfolds after his death: the desperation of his grieving wife, who tries to lose herself in sexual oblivion; the cynical machinations of his mentor, a lawyer who takes over the case he was working on at the time of the accident; and the numb powerlessness of the young Solidarity worker he was defending in court. (It is a measure of Kieslowski’s complex insight that the Polish censors suppressed NO END because of its implicit support of Solidarity, while many members of Solidarity disliked its portrayal of their movement. The Church also condemned the film.) “This courageous and heartening film treats death and grief without morbidity, and is at times powerfully erotic” (Philip French). “An extraordinary film both in form and content – one of the very best to come out of Europe, and certainly Eastern Europe, for several years” (Derek Malcolm). JQ
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