The 1990s catalogue
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Three Colours: Blue
Trois couleurs: Bleu
Released
1993 film by Krzysztof Kieślowski
Three Colours: Blue (French: Trois couleurs: Bleu, Polish: Trzy kolory: Niebieski) is a 1993 psychological drama film co-written and directed by Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Kieślowski. It is the first instalment in the Three Colours trilogy, themed on the French Revolutionary ideals of liberty, equality and fraternity, followed by White and Red (both 1994). According to Kieślowski, the subject of the film is liberty, specifically emotional liberty, rather than its social or political meaning. Set in Paris, the film follows a woman named Julie (Juliette Binoche) whose husband and daughter are killed in a car accident. Suddenly freed from her familial bonds, she tries to isolate herself and live in seclusion from her former ties. However, she discovers that she cannot escape human connections. …
- Runtime
- 100 min
- Director
- Krzysztof Kieślowski
- Screenwriter
- Agnieszka Holland, Edward Żebrowski, Sławomir Idziak
- Starring
- Guillaume de Tonquédec, Juliette Binoche, Emmanuelle Riva
- Producer
- Marin Karmitz
- Composer
- Zbigniew Preisner
- Series
- Three Colors trilogy
- Genre
- drama film, art film
- Original language
- French