Three Colors: Blue [French]

Starring: Juliette Binoche, Zbigniew Zamachowski, Julie Delpy, et al.

The first installment of the late Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski's trilogy on Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity, the three colors of the French flag. Blue is the most somber of the three, a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: DVD
• Language: French
• Release Date: March 2002
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Publisher: Imports
• Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
• Starring: Juliette Binoche, Zbigniew Zamachowski, Julie Delpy, Benoît Régent, Florence Pernel, Charlotte Véry, Hélène Vincent, Philippe Volter, Claude Duneton, Hugues Quester
• Other Video Info: NTSC
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Tries too hard to be artsy, showing love to be antithetical to liberty.

Julie Vignon-de Courcy, a young Frenchwoman (Juliette Binoche), is involved in an accident that will set her on a journey of self-discovery. We go along with her and imagine what we would have done. This is a good film with a message. It is blurred by the attempt to introduce too many details that are trying to reflect ideas that could have been left out or explained straightforwardly. The lack of direct information and many of the modifications from the screenplay make this an average-rated film. I believe that this film requires common knowledge of the writer and film genre that I am not familiar with, so the target audience may be restricted. One plus is the Cinematography of Slawomir Idziak that will come to life in the film GATTACA (1997). The film finally comes alive, and what on the surface seems like a musical downer of a depressed person in a depressed world can come alive for us if we listen to the voice-over interpretation first. The version I have is the Criterion version, so I am not sure that other versions have the voice-over with Annette Insure.