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Three Colors: Blue (French: Trois couleurs: Bleu) is a 1993 French drama film written, produced, and directed by the acclaimed Polish director Krzysztof Kieślowski. Blue is the first of three films that comprise The Three Colors Trilogy, themed on the French Revolutionary ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity; it is followed by White and Red. 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 is about a woman whose husband and child are killed in a car accident. Suddenly set free from her familial bonds, she attempts to cut herself off from everything and live in isolation from her former ties, but finds that she can't free herself from human connections.
Julie (Juliette Binoche), wife of the famous composer Patrice de Courcy, must cope with the death of her husband and daughter in an automobile accident she herself survives. While recovering in hospital, Julie attempts suicide by overdose, but cannot swallow the pills. After being released from hospital, Julie, who it is suggested wrote (or helped to write) much of her husband's famous pieces, destroys what is left behind of them. Calling Olivier (Benoît Régent), an unmarried collaborator of her husband's who has always admired her, she spends a night with him and says goodbye. Emptying the family house and putting it up for sale, she takes an apartment in Paris without telling anyone, her only memento being a mobile of blue beads that the viewer assumes belonged to her daughter.
The Three Colors trilogy (Polish: Trzy kolory, French: Trois couleurs) is the collective title of three films directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski, two made in French and one primarily in Polish: Three Colors: Blue (1993), Three Colors: White (1994), and Three Colors: Red (1994). All three were co-written by Kieślowski and Krzysztof Piesiewicz (with story consultants Agnieszka Holland and Sławomir Idziak) and have musical scores by Zbigniew Preisner.
Red received nominations for Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best Cinematography at the 67th Academy Awards.
Blue, white, and red are the colours of the French flag in left-to-right order, and the story of each film is loosely based on one of the three political ideals in the motto of the French Republic: liberty, equality, fraternity. As with the treatment of the Ten Commandments in The Decalogue, the illustration of these principles is often ambiguous and ironic. As Kieślowski noted in an interview with an Oxford University student newspaper, “The words [liberté, egalité, fraternité] are French because the money [to fund the films] is French. If the money had been of a different nationality we would have titled the films differently, or they might have had a different cultural connotation. But the films would probably have been the same.”
Those are our three reasons. What are yours? Out on Blu-ray and DVD 11/15! More info: http://www.criterion.com/boxsets/844-three-colors
Trois Couleurs : Bleu (1993) Trailer http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108394/ Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski Juliette Binoche, Benoît Régent, Florence Pernel
#afilminthreeminutes #KrzysztofKieślowski #threecolours Experience storytelling by the hands of a master like no other with Krzysztof Kieślowski's 1993 masterpiece "Three Colours: Blue", part one of the Three Colours Trilogy.
Sign up for my newsletter. Youtube channel updates, written reviews, and exclusive content -- free! -- http://eepurl.com/hbfI6v Kryzyztof Kieslowski's Three Colors Trilogy is world-renowned. Why? What makes it great? Let's answer those questions by starting first with the first movie in the trilogy, "Blue," starring Juliette Binoche. This video reviews and analyzes Kieslowski's "Blue." I argue that it's more a lyric than a movie, a meditation on grief and liberty, two paradoxical values that don't seem to fit together, and yet the movie shows their relationship. The video analyzes the movie's use of several key images, including the color blue, music, bungee-jumping, and water. Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrJoshMatthews Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/joshmatthews/ Understan...
A film by Krzysztof Kieslowski with Juliette Binoche. First part of a landmark trilogy is the tale of a woman escaping her grief after a devastating loss.
2 thumbs up, way up, for "Blue", a marvelous piece of filmmaking from director Krzysztof Kieslowski, about a woman trying to put her fractured life back together.
Screening in theaters this summer courtesy Janus Films. More info: https://www.janusfilms.com/film-sets/10
A collection of shots from the 1993 movie, Three Colors: Blue (Trois couleurs: Bleu). Directed by: Krzysztof Kieślowski. Music by: Zbigniew Preisner. Cinematography by: Slawomir Idziak. Production design by: Claude Lenoir.
Three Colors: Blue (French: Trois couleurs: Bleu) is a 1993 French drama film written, produced, and directed by the acclaimed Polish director Krzysztof Kieślowski. Blue is the first of three films that comprise The Three Colors Trilogy, themed on the French Revolutionary ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity; it is followed by White and Red. 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 is about a woman whose husband and child are killed in a car accident. Suddenly set free from her familial bonds, she attempts to cut herself off from everything and live in isolation from her former ties, but finds that she can't free herself from human connections.
Julie (Juliette Binoche), wife of the famous composer Patrice de Courcy, must cope with the death of her husband and daughter in an automobile accident she herself survives. While recovering in hospital, Julie attempts suicide by overdose, but cannot swallow the pills. After being released from hospital, Julie, who it is suggested wrote (or helped to write) much of her husband's famous pieces, destroys what is left behind of them. Calling Olivier (Benoît Régent), an unmarried collaborator of her husband's who has always admired her, she spends a night with him and says goodbye. Emptying the family house and putting it up for sale, she takes an apartment in Paris without telling anyone, her only memento being a mobile of blue beads that the viewer assumes belonged to her daughter.