Three Colours Blue - a French film

[spindrift]

.....is the first film of a trilogy - the others being WHITE and RED.
These films were directed by the acclaimed director Krzysztof Kieslowski in 1993. Blue, White and Red are themed on the French Revolutionary ideals of liberty, equality and fraternity. If this seems highfallluting to you, do not be deterred. I quickly sank into a trance drinking in sombre scenes of death (a car crash) and betrayals (men will be men) whilst lost in admiration of Juliette Binoche.

Blue being the theme of the film, the colour was ever-present in most scenes, whether the walls were shades of blue, the clothes were blue or a lampshade was made of sparkling blue beads.
Blue = depression in my mind and so it was that the leading lady was thoroughly depressed being the sole survivor of a car crash that killed her husband and only child. Quite sensibly she sets out to dissociate herself from memories of the past; leaving her house, her friends and even her mother who is incarcerated in a care home. But the art of disappearing is not as easy as she might have thought. She is found and coincidentally comes face to face with her dead husband's mistress who happens to be pregnant.
There can be no happy ending to this story that ends with the heroine looking into the future with a stony-faced expression as the music fades and the colour Blue reasserts itself.

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I saw Three Colours - Blue way back in the previous century and the most amazing thing that I remember is the incredible use of sound in the movie, particularly the sound of the tyre on the road, humming and buzzing until the bad thing happens.

[ninchursanga]

Wow, were those films made in 1993? In my memory they seem to be much older.

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Just think of the fact that Juliette Binoche is still making perfume commercials rather than wrinkle cream commercials.