Please note: PFA's second-feature discount does not apply to The Decalogue. Instead, we offer a Decalogue Pass: tickets to the complete Decalogue at a 20 percent discount.

“The most unsettling and riveting of his moral series” (Hollywood Reporter), Decalogue 5 tackles the complexities of the Fifth Commandment, “Thou Shalt Not Kill.” Two killings concern Kieslowski here: the murder of a taxi driver by a frustrated, confused young man, and the execution of the young man by the state. A gripping study of the moral quicksand of the death penalty, the film was later remade as the feature A Short Film About Killing. Its polar opposite, Decalogue 6 may be based on the commandment “Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery,” but its true theme is obsession. A young man is in love with the rather promiscuous, much older woman across the way, and even takes a job as a milkman just to hear her voice asking him a question.

Decalogue 5 and 6 are repeated on Sunday, June 4.