Three Colors: Blue

Three Colors: Blue is the first part of a feature film trilogy by Polish director Krzysztof Kieślowski about the slogans of the French Revolution - liberty, equality and fraternity - named after the three colors of the French flag: blue, white, red

Action

The theme of the first film of the trilogy is freedom. Blue is the most intense of the three films, he is dominated by the feeling of pain. The film begins with a serious traffic accident. The only survivor Julie doing her only daughter and her husband, a famous composer loses, then do not try to get along with the situation and to cope with their grief, but a radical break with the past life, tries to flee from their own memory and an entirely new existence is based. She goes to Paris to lead a life with almost no contact with other people. They hired a broker, the country house, where the family lived, to sell, and destroyed her husband's old notations. In the course of the story but it does not succeed, endure this life. The freedom which chooses the protagonist by wants to separate from all things of the previous life, not lead to the desired goal. Only when she gets involved with the past, makes contact with an old friend and continues to work on the unfinished composition of her husband, she manages to free herself from her pain.

Reviews

The filmdienst praised Kieślowski's work as a director in its contemporary criticism as a movie about life, love, memory and forgetting, but would withdraw many of the aforementioned existential questions behind the opulent furnishings, and are only dimly visible. Despite these weaknesses is Three Colours: Blue worth the struggle.

Awards

Three Colours: Blue has been nominated for numerous film awards and recognition from several main prizes.

  • Krzysztof Kieślowski Award for his 1993 film at the Venice Film Festival with the Golden Lion. Juliette Binoche won a Volpi Cup for Best Actress. Sławomir Idziak the Golden Osella for Best Cinematography leadership.
  • For the best film music by Zbigniew Preisner was honored in 1993 with a Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award.
  • 1994 Juliette Binoche was awarded a César for Best Actress. More César Jacques Witta received for Best Editing and Jean -Claude Laureux and William Flageollet for best soundtrack.
  • The Guild of German Art House Cinemas gave the movie 1994 the Guild Film Award in Gold.
  • Also in 1994 received for Kieslowski Three Colours: Blue a Goya Award for Best European Film.
  • For the best foreign film and best foreign actress Kieślowski and Binoche in 1994 also received each one of the Sant Jordi Radio Nacional de España.

Film Music

The soundtrack also includes pieces by the Dutch composer Van den Bude Mayer. This composer is but a fictitious person created by Preisner.

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