Three Colours: White
Three Colours: White (, ) is a 1994 French-Polish comedy-drama film co-written, produced, and directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski. White is the second in the Three Colours trilogy, themed on the French Revolutionary ideals, following Blue and preceding Red. The film was selected as the Polish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 67th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
Plot
After opening with a brief, seemingly irrelevant scene of a suitcase on an airport carousel, the story quickly focuses on a Paris divorce court where Karol Karol (Zbigniew Zamachowski) is pleading with the judge the same legal proceedings that Juliette Binoche's character briefly stumbled upon in Blue. The immigrant Karol, despite his difficulty in understanding French, is made to understand that his wife Dominique (Julie Delpy) does not love him. The grounds for divorce are humiliating: Karol was unable to consummate the marriage. Along with his wife, he loses his means of support (a beauty salon they jointly owned), his legal residency in France, and the rest of his cash in a series of mishaps, and is soon a beggar. He only retains a two franc coin.
Cast
- Aleksander Bardini
- Aleksander Kalinowski
- Andrzej Precigs
- Barbara Dziekan
- Bartłomiej Topa
- Cezary Harasimowicz
- Cezary Pazura
- Florence Pernel
- Francis Coffinet
- Grażyna Szapołowska
- Grzegorz Warchoł
- Jan Mayzel
- Janusz Gajos
- Jerzy Dominik
- Jerzy Nowak
- Jerzy Stuhr
- Jerzy Trela
- Joanna Ładyńska
- Julie Delpy
- Juliette Binoche
- Krystyna Bigelmajer
- Małgorzata Kaczmarska
- Małgorzata Prażmowska
- Maria Robaszkiewicz
- Marzena Trybała
- Philippe Morier-Genoud
- Piotr Machalica
- Piotr Zelt
- Teresa Budzisz-Krzyzanowska
- Wojciech Paszkowski
- Zbigniew Zamachowski
- Zdzisław Rychter
More details
| author | Agnieszka Holland Edward Kłosiński Edward Zebrowski Krzysztof Kieślowski Krzysztof Piesiewicz Marcin Latałło |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Paris Poland |
| director | Krzysztof Kieślowski |
| editor | Urszula Lesiak |
| genre | comedy-drama |
| keywords | beauty salon begin blank catholic church church consummate consummation cry divorce estate flip force franc french franc french language hairdresser kill learn married open paris metro prison cell resell for large profits understand warsaw metro |
| musicBy | Zbigniew Preisner |
| producer | Marin Karmitz |
| publisher | MK2 Distribution Rialto Film |
| recordedAt | Paris |
| theme | independent race and ethnicity |