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Summary: Three Colors Blue A Masterpiece
Review: Blue is the first part of the Three Colors trilogy which I believe will be regonized as the finest cinema event of the 1990's. Blue is the most remote of the three pictures in that it deals with the loss of loved ones, and the isolation it brings.To be totally free is to lose your identity. Kieslowski was wise to cast Juliette Binoche in the role, for no actor today can convey such feeling and intensity with such subtlety.She posesses the greatest pair of eyes in cinema. This film could be silent, and you would understand what this character is going through. I agree that you may have to be in the right frame of mind to see this film, and Red may be the warmer, friendlier movie, but I found Blue to be totally devastating, and to truly appreciate the other two films, you must see this one first.Caveat: Miramax released this film in standard format, and all the films need widescreen format to be truly appreciated. Hold out for the DVD. In fact, look up Miramax's home page and demand it!
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Summary: Unique Blue
Review: Blue by Krzysztof Kieslowski is one of those movies that you have to be in the right mood to watch it, in order to better understand it and like it. The story is not as simple as it seems to be. Julie looses her husband and a little daughter in a car accident, she sells their house and everything they had, and dissapears. Of course, life and death themes are inseperable from all Kieslowki's movies, but this one goes deeper than his other ones. Blue shows how unexpected things happen to everybody, how, most of the time, we are lost in our lives, and how nothing is predictible. Blue is about love, different kinds of love; about hate, about all those feeling we have inside us, but hardly ever talk about. Blue can be a sad story, and make you depress, or if you watch it from another perspective it will have a positive effect on you. That is what makes this movie so unique- each time you try to analyze it, you will discover something new, because it has so many different meanings. Simply fascinating! Juliette Binoche's acting is wonderful. Zbigniew Preisner's music is breathtaking. Blue is a real masterpiece!
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Summary: Great. but.....
Review: I really, really liked this movie. However, I was a bit disappointed with the degree to which the enigmatic nature of the film was taken. It seems that the conceit of the color and of the chandelier was going to a much deeper meaning than was apparent in the film. I enjoyed it immsensely, but thought it would have been better if a few more of the loose ends had been tied up by the end of the film.
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Summary: One of the Best Trilogies
Review: Well, Three Colors is definitely for everyone. For one thing, the stories are simple and open-ended. If you're looking for stories and conclusions, it is not for you. Don't take me wrong, the trilogy does offer a great deal in its own way. Yes, this is a trilogy. In this aspect and in terms of level of artistic achievement, it is comparable to the Godfather series. A video collector's must choice. Like Godfather, the three movies in the trilogy share a same theme: betrayal and redemption. Different from Godfather, though, the same theme is played out differently in each movie. The director did use fleeting scenes of main characters in one movie showing up in the other two to bind the three, which gives us such pleasure out of "fond" memories... OK, forget about the betrayals for now and let's look at the different ways the characters get their redemption. In Blue, Binoche recovers from a deadly accident and her husband's infidelity by resorting to independence, freedom and creation. This might be the only for most of us who are bereft of the most dear to us. Independence, freedom and creation are both difficult and elusive. However, nobody can take away our right to them. Having nothing means you can lose nothing. Difficult and elusive, they are hard to comprehend too. That may explain why our appreciation of Binoche's performance since she conveys them so well. Karol Karol gets it even with her beloved wife in Red through money and change of social status. Interestingly this reflects the possibilities offered by the shifting social structures in a changing society like Poland and other emerging countries. The end is always bittersweet. Finally in Red the redemption of a lost soul comes in the most mystical way. A heart locked 35 years ago finds a key in a model/college student. A young man is reliving the old man's life. The end is open: Is the ray of the hope going to be like the setting sun lingering over the hills or the light at the other end of the tunnel? For those who pay attention to the rhythm of story tell: Blue is like a prose, White is like a short story and Red is a poem. You are going to like it: repetitions and variations. Colors, touch and music...All beautiful.
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Summary: One of the Best Triologies
Review: Well, Three Colors is definitely not for everyone. For one thing, the stories are simple and open-ended. If you're looking for stories and conclusions, it is not for you. Don't take me wrong, the trilogy does offer a great deal in its own way. Yes, this is a trilogy. In this aspect and in terms of level of artistic achievement, it is comparable to the Godfather series. A video collector's must choice. Like Godfather, the three movies in the trilogy share a same theme: betrayal and redemption. Different from Godfather, though, the same theme is played out differently in each movie. The director did use fleeting scenes of main characters in one movie showing up in the others to connect the three, which gives us such pleasure out of "fond" memories... OK, forget about the betrayals for now and let's look at the different ways the characters get their redemption. In Blue, Binoche recovers from a deadly accident and her husband's infidelity by resorting to independence, freedom and creation. This might be the only choice for most of us who are bereft of the most dear to us. Independence, freedom and creation are both difficult and elusive. However, nobody can take away our right to them. Having nothing means you can lose nothing. Difficult and elusive, they are hard to comprehend too. That may explain why our appreciation of Binoche's performance since she conveys them so well. Karol Karol gets it even with her beloved wife in Red through money and change of social status. Interestingly this reflects the possibilities offered by the shifting social structures in a changing society like Poland and other emerging countries. The end is, however, always bittersweet. Finally in Red the redemption of a lost soul comes in the most mystical way. A heart locked 35 years ago finds a key in a model/ college student. A young man is reliving the old man's life. The end is open for imagination: Is the ray of the hope going to be like the setting sun lingering over the hills or the light at the other end of the tunnel? For those who pay attention to the rhythm of story telling: Blue is like a prose, White is like a short story and Red is a poem. You are going to like it: repetitions and variations. Colors, touch and music...All beautiful.
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Summary: fine, with exceptions noted below
Review: This is my least favorite of the series. I object to its abuse of music: 1) The movie takes place in the present, yet the piece in question, the running theme, so to speak, is a facsimile of Beethoven's ninth symphony. In the first place, Beethoven and Schiller already wrote Beethoven's ninth symphony; it isn't necessary to commission someone to write another. In the second place, no late-twentieth-century composer worth his salt speaks Beethoven's tonal language, the tonal language of the early nineteenth century. 2) The movie's music is cartoonish. Our heroine crumples a page of the score; we hear cacophony. Hollywood composers have a term for this sort of thing: "Mickey Mouse-ing". 3) It is frustrating to be allowed only glimpses of the score. Either assume your movie is intended for general audiences, not musicians, and don't show the score close up at all, or else let us really see the damn thing. (Well, I assume the movie is to this extent intended for a general audience that wants to pretend itself musically literate--an audience of pseudo-intellectuals.) (If you like French movies about music think of "Un Coeur en Hiver".)
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Summary: Compelling, Lyrical Cinematic Poetry, Simply Spellbounding!
Review: I definitely found Blue to be the most compelling and ethereal of the series, although I would'nt discount White or Red. Kievslowski's impeccable direction has brought forth a collage of unforgettable images. There's a haunting melancholic yet liberating stillness in the tone, which propel the senses of the spectator to vicariously travel with the main character on a vast unsstructured emotional landscape to self-discovery. This film is simply beautiful. Kievslowski was master of delineating the suspense which exists in pure reality, the suspense which exists in the journey of re-discovering ourselves. As an independent filmmaker he has inspired me incredibly and I wished he lived longer. He had so much to say. I encourage film lovers of all sorts to see this film.
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Summary: One of the best movies I've ever seen
Review: Blue is a masterpiece! The cinematography, the colors, the music and the story melt into a unique and extraordinary movie. Not to forget that Juliette Binoche is a beautiful and marvellous actress.
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Summary: one of the best moviesi have ever seen
Review: i thought that this move was amazing, the actring and the music was like nothing that i have ever seen before in my life. out of the three movies in the triogy blue is my favorite. And juliette is a extrodinary actress
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Summary: Truly a great film
Review: I walked away from this film feeling incredibly spacey. I strolled around feeling like there must be some musical score to underline this world. Binoche's performance definitely dominates the film and the juxtaposition with strong music creates a superimposing emotion throughout.
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