What is the "one thing" in this film's title? — that is the question. Do people even known what they're looking for? What they really want? What they are supposed to do? Why they are so unhappy? This much becomes clear in this masterwork of interconnected story and themes: we are much more alike, and more connected, than we realize. Chance dialog in one story has profound significance in another. "Chance" itself is questioned, weighed against the power of individual choice. Characters oblivious to their connections with others, oblivious to the connection between their choices and their happiness, face circumstances that change them irrevocably. Through it all, the elusiveness of answers to our big questions is affirmed, but not without a Kieslowski-like faith that while moral reality and individual purpose are not exact sciences, they are real, and certainly worth conversing about at length.

Thirteen Conversations About One Thing has been described as "an American Code Unknown", and both films are part of "Codes & Consequences", the Featured Screenings program at Flickerings at Cornerstone Festival, July 2-5, 2003.

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