More hope than equality in Kieslowski's "White".

... More Hope Than Equality in Kieslowski's "White" Simona J. Sivkoff SLAV 307 Dr. P. PETRO UBC Paris, a distressed man is entering the judicial palace, he is insecure, scared, and does not speak French. This is the first impression of the main character, the Pole--Karol Karol, whose beautiful French wife Dominique has summoned him to the court, so that she is granted a divorce due to his inability to consummate their marriage. She is determined to be happy and fulfilled, she is after all this incredibly beautiful and seductive French woman, who married Karol the Polish hairdresser, and now expects him to fully satisfy her. Dominique's coldness is striking with its inhumanity towards the pity invoking Karol, she cannot wait for him to get used to Paris, to learn French, to integrate and therefore she is divorcing him. The flashback to a white wedding ceremony is interrupting the more and more humiliating scene of

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