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Patients with serious lung diseases, who are now in a sanatorium, tell us about their thoughts and feelings.
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"With X-Ray I feel Kieslowski beginning to repeat himself. While his investigations of collective decision making at the workplace are superficially similar, he is mining deeper and deeper at a particular face exposing certain anomalies in Democratic Centralism. Here he collects the stories of men in a tubercular sanitarium which repeats, to a lesser effect, the methodology of Bylem zolnierzem (I Was a Soldier) (1970). After everyone has told their story, and are seen in a long shot sitting on a terrace attended by a very pretty nurse, Kieslowski delivers the punchline- a bus descends into a ne..."
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This was one of Kieslowski's most personal films because it was made in the sanatorium town of Sokolowsko where he had lived as a child. In this very sanatorium, which is depicted in the film, Kieslowski's father had been once treated and had eventually died of tuberculosis.
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Patients with serious lung diseases, who are now in a sanatorium, tell us about their thoughts and feelings.