Krzysztof Kieslowski-Dekalog 9 (1988)

"Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife". Roman, after discovering his impotence, urges his wife Hanka to take a lover. She reluctantly complies, and Roman, despite his earlier words, becomes obsessively jealous. Spying on her, he learns of her affair, and vows to kill himself - not knowing that Hanka was in fact breaking off the relationship… (http://imdb.com/title/tt0094991/plotsummary)




Decalogue 9 - "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife" is a story of the words misinterpreted, the important phone calls missed by a second. The loving couple has to deal with the serious problems that include the husband's impotence and the wife's infidelity. She loves her husband and does not want to leave him even after she learns the sad truth about his condition. She wants to end a strictly physical affair with a younger boyfriend. Her husband does not know that and the tragedy of errors just about to happen… (http://imdb.com/title/tt0094991/usercomments)




It's the main issue of the tension between sexuality and love, and one of the keys to its dramatic construction is the separation between male ideas of sex and love versus female ideas of the same. Does sexual identity necessary consummate love, or can the two exist separately? The protagonist in this case cannot separate the two, though his wife is willing to split the two apart and love him unconditionally while still pursuing sexual satisfaction elsewhere. (http://imdb.com/title/tt0094991/usercomments)




Decalogue 9 is also interesting because in it we first meet the main character of Kieslowski's later film, "Double Life of Veronique." Roman, the hero of Decalogue 9 is a heart surgeon and works in the hospital. One of his patients is a young, full of life girl who loves to sing and has a heart condition. Her favorite composers are Bach, Mozart, and Van den Budenmayer (a fictitious Dutch composer whose music is written by the regular Kieslowski's associate, Zbigniew Preisner). (http://imdb.com/title/tt0094991/usercomments)