Among the tidal wave that sweeps Cannes, the death, at the age of 80, of the Polish screenwriter Krzysztof Piesiewicz, the man behind all the scripts for Kieslowski’s films, has gone unnoticed. It was the Iranian Asghar Farhadi who publicized his death, because it was Piesiewicz who offered him the project of adapting a chapter of the The decalogue by Kieslowski. “When I arrived (Thursday afternoon) on the red carpet,” he confessed in his press conference at parallel stories the Persian filmmaker, “I received an SMS announcing his death. At that moment I felt that his spirit possessed me.”
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