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Three Colors: Blue
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Three Colors: White
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Three Colors: Red
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Three Colors: Blue
In the devastating first film of Krzysztof Kieślowski’s Three Colors trilogy, Juliette Binoche gives a tour de force performance as Julie, a woman reeling from the tragic death of her husband and young daughter. But Blue is more than just a blistering study of grief; it’s also a tale of liberation, as Julie attempts to free herself from the past while confronting truths about the life of her late husband, a composer. Shot in sapphire tones by Sławomir Idziak, and set to an extraordinary operatic score by Zbigniew Preisner, Blue is an overwhelming sensory experience.
Three Colors: White
The most playful and also the grittiest of Krzysztof Kieślowski’s Three Colors films follows the adventures of Karol Karol (Zbigniew Zamachowski), a Polish immigrant living in France. The hapless hairdresser opts to leave Paris for his native Warsaw when his wife (Julie Delpy) sues him for divorce (her reason: their marriage was never consummated) and then frames him for arson after setting her own salon ablaze. White, which goes on to chronicle Karol’s elaborate revenge plot, manages to be both a ticklish dark comedy about the economic inequalities of Eastern and Western Europe and a sublime reverie on twisted love.
Three Colors: Red
Krzysztof Kieślowski closes his Three Colors trilogy in grand fashion, with an incandescent meditation on fate and chance, starring Irène Jacob as a sweet-souled yet somber runway model in Geneva whose life dramatically intersects with that of a bitter retired judge, played by Jean-Louis Trintignant. Meanwhile, just down the street, a seemingly unrelated story of jealousy and betrayal unfolds. Red is an intimate look at forged connections and a splendid final statement from a remarkable filmmaker at the height of his powers.
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- Cinema lesson with director Krzysztof Kieslowski
- Cinema lesson with director Krzysztof Kieslowski
- Cinema lesson with director Krzysztof Kieslowski
- A booklet featuring new essays by film critics Colin MacCabe, Nick James, Stuart Klawans, and Georgina Evans; an excerpt from Kieślowski on Kieślowski; and reprinted interviews with cinematographers Slawomir Idziak, Edward Klosinski, and Piotr Sobocinski
- Video essay by film studies professor Annette Insdorf
- Video essay by film critic Tony Rayns
- Video essay by film writer Dennis Lim
- Video interview with Three Colors composer Zbigniew Preisner
- Two interview programs, one with cowriter Krzysztof Piesiewicz and one with actors Zbigniew Zamachowski and Julie Delpy
- Interview with actor Irène Jacob, plus interviews with producer Marin Karmitz and editor Jacques Witta
- Selected-scene commentary featuring actor Juliette Binoche
- Short documentary on the making of White
- Behind-the-scenes footage
- “Reflections on Blue,” and Kieślowski: The Early Years, interview programs featuring film critic Geoff Andrew, Juliette Binoche, filmmaker Agnieszka Holland, cinematographer S?awomir Idziak, Annette Insdorf, actor Irène Jacob, and editor Jacques Witta
- Two short documentaries by Kieślowski: Seven Women of Different Ages (1978) and Talking Heads (1980)
- Short documentary on the film’s world premiere at Cannes
- The Tram (1966), a student short by Kieślowski, and The Face (1966), a short starring Kieślowski
- Trailer
- Krzysztof Kieslowski: I'm So-So..., a 1995 feature-length documentary in which Kieślowski discusses his life and work
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