Three Colours: Blue (1993)

Original title

Trois couleurs : Bleu

Directed by

Krzysztof Kieślowski

Genre

drama film, art film

Country

United Kingdom, France, Switzerland, Poland

Runtime

1h 40m

Rated

R

Rating

7.6 of 10 from 1,911 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman loses her husband and daughter in a car accident. She tries to cut herself off from her past and live alone in Paris but finds that she keeps getting pulled back into the lives of others.

melancholicslow-burnintrospectivesomberquietemotionally rawrestrainedvisually contemplative

What happens

Three Colours: Blue (French: Trois couleurs: Bleu, Polish: Trzy kolory: Niebieski) is a 1993 psychological drama film co-written and directed by Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Kieślowski. It is the first instalment in the Three Colours trilogy, themed on the French Revolutionary ideals of liberty, equality and fraternity, followed by White and Red (both 1994). According to Kieślowski, the subject of the film is liberty, specifically emotional liberty, rather than its social or political meaning. Set in Paris, the film follows a woman named Julie (Juliette Binoche) whose husband and daughter are killed in a car accident. Suddenly freed from her familial bonds, she tries to isolate herself and live in seclusion from her former ties. However, she discovers that she cannot escape human connections. Upon its release, Blue received widespread critical acclaim and won several awards, including the Golden Lion and the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival. It remains one of Kieślowski's most celebrated works. The male lead, Benoît Régent, died of an aneurysm at the age of 41 in October 1994, just one year after the film was released. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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