Trois Couleurs Bleu (Three Colours: Blue) 1993 M

Production still from Three Colours: Blue 1993 / Director: Krzysztof Kieślowski / Image courtesy: Madman Entertainment / View full image
When
Where
Gallery of Modern Art, Cinema A
Accessibility
- Subtitled
Admission
Free
About
The first film in Kieślowski’s striking trilogy, this haunting reflection on loss, grief and freedom is carried by Juliette Binoche’s spell-binding performance as Julie.
Navigating her way through the tragic loss of her famous composer husband and their young daughter, Julie pursues a new, independent life beyond his legacy. Blue - the colour of liberty in the French flag - paints grief, trauma and memory in the film. Cinematographer Slawomir Idziak exquisitely employs the hue in Julie’s post-traumatic reality: refracted through a crystal chandelier, illuminating a swimming pool and permeating the cold light of predawn.
Interwoven with the titular colour is the music, composed by Zbigniew Preisner. Dramatic orchestral interludes aurally skewer scenes as Julie makes decisions and realisations about both the past life she is trying to erase and the new one she is forging. Inevitably drawn back to her husband’s unfinished concerto, the elements of colour and sound enmesh in a cinematic experience of chromesthesia, where the score becomes the sound of blue.
M | Adult themes
Production Credits
- Director: Krzysztof Kieślowski
- Script: Krzysztof Piesiewicz, Krzysztof Kieślowski
- Cinematographer: Slawomir Idziak
- Editor: Jacques Witta
- Cast: Juliette Binoche, Benoît Régent, Florence Pernel
- Print Source: mk2 films
- Rights: Madman Entertainment
- Year: 1993
- Runtime: 98 minutes
- Countries: France, Poland, Switzerland
- Languages: French, Romanian, Polish
- Subtitles: English
- Sound: Stereo
- Colour: Colour
- Shooting Format: 35mm
- Screening Format: 4K DCP