Three Colours Blue (DVD)

...rather than action and excitement. Three Colours Blue fits the bill for me perfectly. The first part of a trilogy - the second being Three Colours White and the third Three Colours Red - it is French but is directed by Krysztof Kieslowski of Poland. I watched all three films several years ago but Blue was the one that appealed most to me, so I eventually decided to buy the DVD. As the event happens at the outset of the film, I am not giving anything ...
...if I remember correctly, in Three Colours Red. Visually this is a stunning film, and what struck me in particular were the close-ups of what seem to be minor details such as a tiny feather resting on a mattress or a sugar cube poised on the surface of a cup of coffee, absorbing the liquid and changing colour before plopping into the cup. I am intrigued by such attention to detail and was delighted to hear Kieslowski talking about this in one of ...

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...Binoche), the central character of Three Colours: Blue. The survivor of a car crash which took the lives of her husband Patrice, a celebrated composer, and her young daughter, she desires nothing but to withdraw from life, cutting all ties and bonds that formerly surrounded her. The creation of a Franco-Polish collaboration, and the last project of acclaimed director Krzysztof Kieslowski, the Three Colours trilogy (Blue being the first, White the ...
...three foundations of the French state; Liberté, égalité et fraternité. Reflecting also the French tricolore, Blue deals with an interpretation of Liberty, while Equality and Fraternity are examined in the following films. All three films are self-contained and tell independent stories, although there are threads which run through the trilogy and link up its constituent parts (Julie, for instance, here walks by accident into a courtroom in which the ...

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First lets get out of the way the facts you may already know. This was the first of Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski’s "Three Colours" trilology. The film and it's central star, Juliette Binoche, won awards and critical acclaim. The "three colours" are taken from the French flag (blue, white and red) and each colour is associated with one part of the French motto "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity". To be specific "Blue" represents Liberty. Blue ...
...and with coldness. The plot is very simple. Julie is the only survivor of a car crash that kills her young daughter and famous composer husband Patrice. She has few ties left apart from a confused mother who repeated mistakes her for her dead sister, Olivier who worked with Patrice and who loves Julie, and her country home and possessions. Julie then moves to Paris cutting herself off from those few remaining ties. She says at one stage: "I don't ...

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...symbolizing the colours of france.All three films were released in a short span of two years(1993-94) and focusses on different attributes of life. Julie(Juliette Binoche) loses her world famous composer husband and her child in a traffic accident and decides to live a rather independent life of her own. To make things easier for herself,she decides to sell off all the previous belongings and moving to a new neighbourhood where she can channel all ...
...to keep the tragedy out of her life and tries to take a new look at life. Soon Julie realises she needs to work on one of her husband's last work as a musician and on her journey comes to know new things about him that she never knew. Its a film which has a rather strong impact visually when you watch it.The director sets the story beautifully and the whole ambience works for the film.I loved how he kept the colour blue throughout the film;it was ...

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"Three Colors: Blue is the first part of Kieslowski's trilogy on France's national motto: Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity. Blue is the story of Julie who loses her husband, an acclaimed European composer and her young daughter in a car accident. The film's theme of liberty is manifested in Julie's attempt to start life anew free of personal commitments, belongings grief and love. She intends to spiritually commit suicide by withdrawing from the ...
...the Parisian metropolis. Despite her intentions, people from her former and present life intrude with their own needs. However, the reality created by the people who need and care about her, a surprising discovery and the music around which the film revolves heals Julie and irresistibly draws her back to the land of the living." ~ IMDB (Internet Movie Database) Having gone through a rather extended period in my early years of being obsessed with ...

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In this the first part of Krzysztof Kieslowski's trilogy based on France's national motto: ‘Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity’. Blue is the story of Julie DeCourcy (Juliette Binoche) who loses her husband, an acclaimed European composer and her daughter in a car accident. The film's theme of liberty is manifested in Julie's attempt to start life anew free of personal commitments, belongings grief and love. She intends to commit ‘social suicide’ by ...
...completely independently, anonymously and in solitude in the Parisian metropolis. Despite her attempts, people from her former and present life intrude with their own needs. However, the reality created by the people who need and care about her, a surprising discovery and the music around which the film revolves heals Julie and irresistibly draws her back to the land of the living. Juliette Binoche is fantastic in this role, bearing her character’s ...

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