Blind Chance

Aroview: In the opening scene a young Polish medical student (Linda) hurries to catch a train departing from Lodz to Warsaw, from which point dir. Kieslowski's wry drama splits into three, presenting a trio of options of what might happen in his life depending on whether he caught or missed the train.

Presenting Kieslowski's first and perhaps boldest dissection of how the lines of fate and coincidence are fatally entangled, this also incorporates a pointed political commentary on life in Communist Poland, which led to it being suppressed in its home country for five years (it was made in 1981).