Event Description

Come see Three Colours: Blue presented on 35mm film on the big screen in L3! 

In the first of the acclaimed Three Colours trilogy by Krysztof Kieslowski, Three Colours: Blue follows Julie (Binoche), a woman grieving the loss of her husband and young daughter in a car accident, which she managed to survive. As soon as the physical signs of the accident subside, Julie tries to free herself of any semblance of her family - burning her husband’s work, moving out of the family home, and cutting off most relationships with people she knew prior to the crash. Though there is a clear sadness to everything that Julie experiences, there is a beauty that seeps through it. Each frame is constructed like a pre-Raphaelite doused in blue paint, Juliette Binoche is perfect in capturing the flittering emotions of grief, of trying to root yourself in love when everyone you held dear is gone, of making the effort to do the menial tasks because to watch something as simple as a sugar cube in a coffee cup is to know that you are alive. Though there are slight references to Three Colours: White and Red, the other films in the trilogy, Blue stands on its own. It’s a testament to love, to music (something that aided by the fact there’s an exquisite soundtrack by Zbigniew Preisner), to beauty and a thousand other things that I probably can’t contain to a simple review.

Erin Lewis

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