... 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 ... Read review
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COLOURS trilogy, BLUE represents Liberty (of Equality and Fraternity) in the French flag and national motto. Julie (Juliette Binoche) is a young, musically gifted Frenchwoman who has just lost her daughter and renowned composer-husband Patrice (Claude Duneton) in a tragic car accident. During her long physical and emotional convalescence, a journalist questions Julie about the widespread rumor that she's the actual composer of all Patrice's work. She rebuffs the journalist's inquiry regarding her husband's music, but she does not deny it. Upon leaving the hospital, Julie takes a flat in Paris and struggles to start anew--but not until she destroys Patrice's final unfinished work--a huge symphony for 12 orchestras, to be played at a gala celebrating the upcoming unification of 12 European nations. However, another copy surfaces, and gradually, as Julie discovers some surprising secrets about her husband's life, she's drawn back to the music, and the pleasures of existence. Kieslowski uses color as metaphor ingeniously, adding immense emotional depth to the story that is unfolding on screen. As Julie, Binoche is a striking cinematic presence. Her transition from a destroyed widow to a woman who has learned to embrace life gives BLUE the heart and soul that makes it a powerful, moving work.
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Liberty, Equality and Fraternity, the three colours of the French flag.Blueis the most sombre of the three, a movie dominated by feelings of grief. As the film begins, a car accident claims the life of a well-known composer. His wife, played by Juliette Binoche (Oscar winner forThe English Patient), does not so much put the pieces of her life back together as start an entirely new existence. She moves to Paris, where she dissolves into a wordless life virtually without other people. Kieslowski attaches an almost subconscious significance to the colour blue but primarily he focuses on Binoche's luminous face and the way her subtle shifts in emotion flicker and disappear. The picture may be more enigmatic than the follow-upsWhiteandRedbut Binoche's quiet, heartbreaking presence becomes spellbinding; her performance won the best actress prize at the Venice Film Festival in 1993.--Robert Horton
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Production Year: 2004 - Drama - Director: Nick Cassavetes - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over, 12 years and over - Starring: Rachel McAdams, Ryan Gosling, Gena Rowlands
Advantages: Beautifully made, very emotional Disadvantages: Not for those looking for action
...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 ... ...if I remember correctly, in Three Colours Red.
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I have to admit I am a lover of French films, but also a lover of films that concentrate on people, relationships and feelings 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 away by telling you that Julie's husband and only child, a daughter, are both killed in a car accident. Julie (Juliette Binoche) was in the car too but survives, and during the initial episode of the film we see her in hospital. She has to watch the funeral on television; her husband was a world-famous composer and his music is played as the two coffins are borne in front of the crowds.
The film centres around the way in which Julie tries to come to terms with her loss and how she decides to live her life after losing her immediate family. She flees from Olivier (Benoit Regent), another composer who is in love with her, and rents an apartment in Paris. Her mother, suffering from dementia and residing in a care home, thinks Julie is her sister and can offer her no comfort. After some time, however, Julie discovers that the past was not as she had believed it to be, and the facts she uncovers influence her decisions and the path that her future life will take.
Juliette Binoche puts in a powerful performance as the woman who is devastated by a tragedy in her life. She shows the full gamut of emotions, and sometimes also the lack of them. The supporting cast add a variety of flavours to what might sound like a dreary film: the most fascinating of these is Sandrine (Sandrine Pernel), the prostitute who lives downstairs and who acts as the catalyst for Julie's discoveries. At the other end of the scale, in a scene where Julie is basking in sunshine, we see a little old lady with a curved spine, hardly able to walk, struggling to recycle her bottle in the bottle bank. She appears again, 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 the extras on the DVD.
The film revolves around more than one composer, and both orchestral and choral music - contemporary, of course - feature greatly in the film and add to its emotional intensity. The music was actually composed by Zbigniew Priesner, who I presume to be Polish. It was apparently played at the funeral of Kieslowski, who died in 1996.
The film is rated 15 and contains one or two sex scenes, although these are not particularly graphic.
Extras The first section of the Extras consists of a series of brief interviews with Juliette Binoche, lasting around twenty-five minutes in all. We hear her speak in French against a series of clips from the film, and there are of course English subtitles. She talks mainly about working with the director, Kieslowski, for whom she obviously had a tremendous respect. She describes how, two weeks prior to filming, the costumes arrived and they were not happy with them. Kieslowski decided that Binoche should wear her own clothes, and from that point on great trust was established between director and actor. Binoche explains that Kieslowski began to let her make decisions about how certain scenes should be acted out, although she does pinpoint one episode towards the end of the film where he insisted on her maintaining a cold, unfeeling expression whereas she would have preferred a gentler one that came from the heart.
In a Masterclass lasting six or seven minutes, Kieslowski talks about his attitude towards directing the film, focusing mainly on the five-second close-up of a sugar cube held by Julie on the surface of her coffee, showing how it absorbs the sugar. It is fascinating to hear Kieslowski explaining that the five-second timing had to be exact, meaning that his assistant had to spend half a day trying out different types of sugar to find a cube that would absorb the coffee quickly enough. Even more interesting are his thoughts on how Julie concentrates on such small details in order to shut out more important aspects of her life.
Other extra sections include interviews with the editor, Jacques Witta, and producer Marin Karmitz. Karmitz describes how he and Kieslowski met and began working together, always needing an interpreter because Kieslowski spoke Polish and English whilst Karmitz speaks only French. At the Venice Film Festival, however, the two found themselves drinking whisky together for two or three hours and managed to carry on a French-English conversation together. The following day Karmitz checked with the interpreter to make sure he had understood Kieslowski correctly, and he had. It was the first of quite a few such drinking sessions.
Trailers of each of the three films in the trilogy are included in the extras, as well as excerpts from the original soundtrack.
Conclusion I have said that this is a film that focuses on emotions, on people and circumstances. There are themes of emotional loss, generosity, and love in its widest sense. It is not one for those who are looking for thrill-a-minute action. It is, however, beautifully acted, and the visual excellence combined with the musical threads running throughout make this a film that I can delight in.
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Advantages: Striking, affecting combinations of music and visuals, strong central performance. Disadvantages: Perhaps a little too blue.
...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 ...
Puggers 01.07.2009
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Advantages: Beautiful, thought provoking, powerful Disadvantages: not for people who dislike subtitles (unless you speak French!)
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 ...
rickc 23.11.2004
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Advantages: Concept.beautiful acting and direction Disadvantages: A tad slow.Subject might not interest many.
...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 ...
aadnan613 16.11.2009
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Advantages: This movie has everything going for it Disadvantages: you'll fidget a bit cause it gets so intense..but that's not necessary a bad thing!
"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 ...
Coyote98 06.11.2006 (07.11.2006)
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Advantages: Excellent film to watch Disadvantages: When do you watch Three Colours: White ?
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 ...
bigdoug 10.08.2000
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Scene By Scene Commentary By Krzysztof Kieslowski, Interviews With Juliette Binoche Jacques Witta And Marin Karmitz, Excerpts From The Original Soundtrack By Zbigniew Priesner, Theatrical Trailer
Aspect Ratio
16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Sound
Dolby Digital 5.1
Dubbing Sound
Dolby Digital 5.1 French
Professional reviews
Review
"...A masterpiece....Kieslowski is modern cinema's great prestidigitator: a humanist disguised as misanthrope..." (Film Comment, p.64-6, 01/11/1993)
"...A riveting central performance by a carefully controlled, lovingly lit Juliette Binoche..." (Variety, 20/09/1993)
DVD Description
In the first part of acclaimed Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski's extraordinary THREE COLOURS trilogy, BLUE represents Liberty (of Equality and Fraternity) in the French flag and national motto. Julie (Juliette Binoche) is a young, musically gifted Frenchwoman who has just lost her daughter and renowned composer-husband Patrice (Claude Duneton) in a tragic car accident. During her long physical and emotional convalescence, a journalist questions Julie about the widespread rumor that she's the actual composer of all Patrice's work. She rebuffs the journalist's inquiry regarding her husband's music, but she does not deny it. Upon leaving the hospital, Julie takes a flat in Paris and struggles to start anew--but not until she destroys Patrice's final unfinished work--a huge symphony for 12 orchestras, to be played at a gala celebrating the upcoming unification of 12 European nations. However, another copy surfaces, and gradually, as Julie discovers some surprising secrets about her husband's life, she's drawn back to the music, and the pleasures of existence. Kieslowski uses color as metaphor ingeniously, adding immense emotional depth to the story that is unfolding on screen. As Julie, Binoche is a striking cinematic presence. Her transition from a destroyed widow to a woman who has learned to embrace life gives BLUE the heart and soul that makes it a powerful, moving work.
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