Three Colours: Blue
Three Colours: Blue (, ) is a 1993 drama film directed and co-written by Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Kieślowski. Blue is the first of three films that comprise the Three Colours trilogy, themed on the French Revolutionary ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity; it is followed by White and Red. According to Kieślowski, the subject of the film is liberty, specifically emotional liberty, rather than its social or political meaning.
Plot
Julie, the wife of the famous French composer Patrice de Courcy, loses her husband and daughter in an automobile accident she herself survives. While recovering in a hospital, Julie attempts suicide by overdosing on pills, but cannot swallow them. After being released from the hospital, Julie, who is suggested to have helped write much of her husband's famous pieces, destroys what is left of them. Calling Olivier, a collaborator of her husband's who has always admired her, she sleeps with him before bidding him goodbye. Emptying the family house and putting it up for sale, she takes an apartment in Paris near Rue Mouffetard without telling anyone, her only memento being a mobile of blue beads that is hinted to have belonged to her daughter.
Awards
Cast
- Alain Decaux
- Alain Ollivier
- Arno Chevrier
- Benoît Régent
- Charlotte Véry
- Claude Duneton
- Daniel Martin
- Emmanuelle Riva
- Florence Pernel
- Florence Vignon
- Guillaume de Tonquédec
- Hélène Vincent
- Hugues Quester
- Idit Cebula
- Isabelle Sadoyan
- Julie Delpy
- Julie Gayet
- Juliette Binoche
- Philippe Manesse
- Philippe Morier-Genoud
- Philippe Volter
- Pierre Forget
- Stanislas Nordey
- Yann Trégouët
- Zbigniew Zamachowski
More details
| author | Agnieszka Holland Edward Zebrowski Krzysztof Kieślowski Krzysztof Piesiewicz Sławomir Idziak |
|---|---|
| award | Golden Lion |
| contentLocation | Paris |
| director | Krzysztof Kieślowski |
| editor | Jacques Witta |
| events | liberty |
| genre | drama political social |
| keywords | 1 corinthians 13 alzheimer's alzheimer's disease apartment building build choir chorus cold war corinthian cry end greek koine greek past life rue mouffetard saint paul sing soprano unfinished |
| musicBy | Zbigniew Preisner |
| nomination | César Award for Best Actress |
| producer | Marin Karmitz |
| publisher | MK2 Diffusion Rialto Film |
| recordedAt | Paris |
| theme | independent |