Three Colours: Blue
Three Colours: Blue (, ) is a 1993 drama film directed and co-written by Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Kieślowski. It is the first of three films that make up the Three Colours trilogy, themed on the French Revolutionary ideals of liberty, equality and fraternity, 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 but survives herself. While recovering in the hospital, Julie tries to commit suicide by taking an overdose of pills but is unable to swallow them. After being released from the hospital, Julie, who is thought to have helped write much of her husband's famous pieces, destroys what remains of his work. She contacts Olivier, a collaborator of her husband's who has always admired her, and sleeps with him before bidding him farewell. She empties the family home and puts it up for sale, taking an apartment in Paris near Rue Mouffetard without informing anyone. Her only memento is 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 cold war corinthian cry end family home past life paul the apostle rue mouffetard saint paul saint paul's sing stripper unfinished |
| musicBy | Zbigniew Preisner |
| nomination | César Award for Best Actress |
| producer | Marin Karmitz |
| publisher | MK2 Diffusion Rialto Film |
| recordedAt | Paris |
| theme | independent |