Elegant, engaging both emotionally and temporally, Three Colours: Blue is Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski’s first of his French-language trilogy exploring liberty (Three Colours: Blue), equality (…White) and fraternity (…Red).
The first is a simple enough tale of a woman (Juliette Binoche) rebuilding her life following the death of her husband, an internationally renowned composer, and young daughter in a car crash. She alone survived. Attempting to quash memories, she cuts all ties with her past, destroying his incomplete work, putting their country home on the market, moving into an apartment in Paris in the hope of becoming anonymous in the city. But nothing is that simple.
An aural as well as visual experience (we hear snippets of her husband’s unfinished concerto, a commission to celebrate the anniversary of the unification of Europe), a stylish Binoche slowly rebuilds her life as she discovers she cannot survive in isolation.
Rating: 87%
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski (A Short Film About Killing, The Double Life of Veronique)
Writer: Krzysztof Kieslowski (A Short Film About Killing, The Double Life of Veronique), Krzysztof Piesiewicz (A Short Film About Killing, The Double Life of Veronique)
Main cast: Juliette Binoche (The English Patient, Clouds of Sils Maria), Benoît Régent (Three Colours: Red, ‘Round Midnight), Florence Pernel (Three Colours: White, Le bateau de mariage)
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