Three Colours: Blue (1993)
(Trois couleurs: bleu)
Country: FR
Technical: col 98m
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Cast: Juliette Binoche, Benoît Régent
Synopsis:
Bereaved of her husband and daughter after a road accident, a woman resolves to sever herself from all emotional and material ties. Her husband's unfinished composition, however, proves less easy to dispose of.
Review:
The first of a trilogy dedicated to the culmination of the European Union, and celebrating love in all its aspects, this is a typically assured and intense opener. Dialogue is as elliptical as ever and subordinate to imagery, which itself is intricate, beautiful, and just a shade self-consciously arty. Nevertheless, for a cultural artefact as highly crafted as this, one cannot complain too much if it is over-earnest at times. 'Liberté' here means freedom from the past.
(Trois couleurs: bleu)
Country: FR
Technical: col 98m
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Cast: Juliette Binoche, Benoît Régent
Synopsis:
Bereaved of her husband and daughter after a road accident, a woman resolves to sever herself from all emotional and material ties. Her husband's unfinished composition, however, proves less easy to dispose of.
Review:
The first of a trilogy dedicated to the culmination of the European Union, and celebrating love in all its aspects, this is a typically assured and intense opener. Dialogue is as elliptical as ever and subordinate to imagery, which itself is intricate, beautiful, and just a shade self-consciously arty. Nevertheless, for a cultural artefact as highly crafted as this, one cannot complain too much if it is over-earnest at times. 'Liberté' here means freedom from the past.
(Trois couleurs: bleu)
Country: FR
Technical: col 98m
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Cast: Juliette Binoche, Benoît Régent
Synopsis:
Bereaved of her husband and daughter after a road accident, a woman resolves to sever herself from all emotional and material ties. Her husband's unfinished composition, however, proves less easy to dispose of.
Review:
The first of a trilogy dedicated to the culmination of the European Union, and celebrating love in all its aspects, this is a typically assured and intense opener. Dialogue is as elliptical as ever and subordinate to imagery, which itself is intricate, beautiful, and just a shade self-consciously arty. Nevertheless, for a cultural artefact as highly crafted as this, one cannot complain too much if it is over-earnest at times. 'Liberté' here means freedom from the past.