Three Colours: White (1994)
(Trois couleurs: blanc)
Country: FR/SW/POL
Technical: col 91m
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Cast: Zbigniew Zamachowski, Julie Delpy, Janusz Gajos
Synopsis:
A French woman divorces a Polish hairdresser for being unable to consummate the marriage. He returns to Poland in a parlous state and sets about getting her back by making lots of money.
Review:
Getting her back or getting his own back? ('Egalité' could be interpreted as 'Even', as in tennis.) The second in the trilogy, White, is the black sheep. Far from being a transfiguring treatment of dark themes of infidelity or bereavement, it is a lighter treatment of trivial, callous rejection: a comedy, but a melancholy one. Viewers might find the plotting vague and hard to take, especially towards the end, but that would be missing the detail of the enduring themes of chance and closer European integration.
(Trois couleurs: blanc)
Country: FR/SW/POL
Technical: col 91m
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Cast: Zbigniew Zamachowski, Julie Delpy, Janusz Gajos
Synopsis:
A French woman divorces a Polish hairdresser for being unable to consummate the marriage. He returns to Poland in a parlous state and sets about getting her back by making lots of money.
Review:
Getting her back or getting his own back? ('Egalité' could be interpreted as 'Even', as in tennis.) The second in the trilogy, White, is the black sheep. Far from being a transfiguring treatment of dark themes of infidelity or bereavement, it is a lighter treatment of trivial, callous rejection: a comedy, but a melancholy one. Viewers might find the plotting vague and hard to take, especially towards the end, but that would be missing the detail of the enduring themes of chance and closer European integration.
(Trois couleurs: blanc)
Country: FR/SW/POL
Technical: col 91m
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Cast: Zbigniew Zamachowski, Julie Delpy, Janusz Gajos
Synopsis:
A French woman divorces a Polish hairdresser for being unable to consummate the marriage. He returns to Poland in a parlous state and sets about getting her back by making lots of money.
Review:
Getting her back or getting his own back? ('Egalité' could be interpreted as 'Even', as in tennis.) The second in the trilogy, White, is the black sheep. Far from being a transfiguring treatment of dark themes of infidelity or bereavement, it is a lighter treatment of trivial, callous rejection: a comedy, but a melancholy one. Viewers might find the plotting vague and hard to take, especially towards the end, but that would be missing the detail of the enduring themes of chance and closer European integration.