Rating: 
Summary: One of my all-time favorites!
Review: This movie is flawed, but I don't care! I have seen it dozens of times. It is beautiful and transcendant. There are parts of the movie that are so mesmerizing, I find myself rewinding the tape and playing them over and over again. I enjoyed Blue and White, but not nearly as much as Red. And you don't really lose anything if you see Red without seeing the other two first.
Rating:
Summary: one of the best dramas I've seen
Review: This movie is so good,I am buying the laser disc and I don't even have a laser disc player!! I ran into this movie at a video store while looking in the "foreign" section. A beautiful gem.
Rating:
Summary: CULMINATION
Review: This third and final installment of Kieslowski's trilogy was probably the best story of the three with many people's paths unknowingly crossing and with excellent performances from Irene Jacob and Jean-Louis Trintignant. Jacob plays a beautiful young model and student who has a long-distance relationship with a man who spends most of his time in England. He makes demands on her which don't seem particularly demanding, but which subtly make the audience realise that he thinks mostly of himself and not of her feelings. One night Jacob is driving and hits a dog in the road. She puts the dog in her car and takes it to a vet. The vet tells her the dog will be fine but that the dog is also pregnant. Jacob finds the owner, a retired judge played by Trintignant. He claims he does not care what happens to the dog, so Jacob takes the dog home with her (the dog's name is Rita, if that matters). Rita eventually escapes and runs back to the retired judge. Jacob and the retired judge form a very strange and ambivalent friendship, and Jacob discovers some unsavoury things about her new friend. For example, he has set up equipment in his home in order to eavesdrop on his neighbours's phone calls. He has discovered that the man next door is having an affair with another man but the family does not know. Jacob is furious that he violates their privacy and insists she will go next door and tell them everything. She is not able to, but after she leaves, he writes letters to all the neighbours and informs them of what he has done and in essence turns himself in. The relationship between Jacob and the judge deepens and takes new turns. He tells her a story from his distant past and hints that a similar fate may be awaiting her. The film is sensual, romantic, deceptive, full of mystery, suspense, humanity, betrayal and beauty. Definitely the best of the Red, White, Blue trilogy (also the last. The acclaimed director, Kieslowski, died not long after this film was released).
Rating:
Summary: Beautiful Slice of Life
Review: This, the third and final installment of Krzysztof Kieslowski's "Three Colors" trilogy, is the best in the series. It is the story of a beautiful young model who meets a lonely old man through a complete coincidence.It is important that it is a coincidence, for Kieslowski seems to be saying that so much of our lives is random and beyond our control. This man and woman never knew they would meet, but somehow they did. We are unsure of what will happen to them. Will they become friends? Will they ever see each other again? The story is very subtle and poignant and completely unpredictable (unlike most Hollywood films). You will probably enjoy this best if you've seen the first two films in the series ("Blue" and "White") first. All three are highly recommended.
Rating:
Summary: A Brilliant Cinematic Experience - Brotherhood...
Review: Three Colors: Red is the end of the trilogy that portray the French motto brotherhood through salvation, pity, communication, and compassion. The attractive and beautiful Valentine (Irène Jacob) is a successful photo model in the Swiss city Geneva where she begins a new friendship through an accident where she nearly kills a dog. Sympathy for the dog leads Valentine into a new friendship with the dog's owner who is a cynical retired judge who eavesdrops on the neighbor's phone conversations, which discloses betrayal. Valentine also finds herself in a jealous relationship with a boyfriend, who is currently in London and arguing over the Valentine's success in the world of modeling. Moreover, through Valentine's actions there are numerous interactions between a number of different characters in the film that builds up a crescendo towards the end, which is the result of exceptional directing. Three Colors: Red offers a masterpiece in the cinematic sense that can be equaled to Shakespeare's writing, Michelangelo's painting, and Wright's architecture. The film provides a flawless cinematic experience that is built with focus on the ambiguous distinction of the nature of human friendship. This film was Kieslowski's last picture as he past away on March 13th, 1996.
Rating:
Summary: A Brilliant Cinematic Experience - Brotherhood...
Review: Three Colors: Red is the end of the trilogy that portray the French motto brotherhood through salvation, pity, communication, and compassion. The attractive and beautiful Valentine (Irène Jacob) is a successful photo model in the Swiss city Geneva where she begins a new friendship through an accident where she nearly kills a dog. Sympathy for the dog leads Valentine into a new friendship with the dog's owner who is a cynical retired judge who eavesdrops on the neighbor's phone conversations, which discloses betrayal. Valentine also finds herself in a jealous relationship with a boyfriend, who is currently in London and arguing over the Valentine's success in the world of modeling. Moreover, through Valentine's actions there are numerous interactions between a number of different characters in the film that builds up a crescendo towards the end, which is the result of exceptional directing. Three Colors: Red offers a masterpiece in the cinematic sense that can be equaled to Shakespeare's writing, Michelangelo's painting, and Wright's architecture. The film provides a flawless cinematic experience that is built with focus on the ambiguous distinction of the nature of human friendship. This film was Kieslowski's last picture as he past away on March 13th, 1996.
Rating:
Summary: Compassion and Brotherhood
Review: With "Red," Kieslowski completes his trilogy of films with a sigh of relief and a humane and deep feeling of Compassion: embodied in the very human and emotionally available performance of Irene Jacob as Valentine.
Everything about Valentine's life is chaotic: her boyfriend (who we only hear on the phone and never see) is at the very least, mixed up, she is estranged from her family, and to top everything off...she runs over a dog named Rita. But it is this twist that sets the plot in motion and introduces us to Rita's owner, Joseph Kern (Jean Louis Trintignant) an ex-judge whose secret life involves high-tech spying equipment and listening in on his neighbor's phone conversations. Yet upon seeing Valentine for the first time and hearing the sound of her voice, Kern confesses all and even directs her to inform on him to his neighbors. For Kieslowski and Kern then, Valentine is the symbol of all that is good and as such nothing evil can survive around her.
"Red" is all about caring and making emotional connections. In one very short, very telling scene Valentine watches as a senior citizen tries to put a bottle into a recycle receptacle that is too high for her. Valentine rushes over and helps. This same scene occurs in both "Blue" and "White" but the heroines in those films are too pre-occupied to even notice much less offer help.
"Red" was Kieslowski's last film and he finished it very near the time of his death. It is told in the voice of someone, close to death, who has decided to embrace only what is positive and good. "Red" is ultimately then...about Love.
|
