Three Colors: White
The most playful and also the grittiest of Kieslowski's Three Colors films follows the adventures of Karol Karol (Zbigniew Zamachowski), a Polish immigrant living in France. The hapless hairdresser opts to leave Paris for his native Warsaw when his wife (Julie Delpy) sues him for divorce (her reason: their marriage was never consummated) and then frames him for arson after setting her own salon ablaze. White, which goes on to chronicle Karol Karol's elaborate revenge plot, manages to be both a ticklish dark comedy about the economic inequalities of Eastern and Western Europe and a sublime reverie about twisted love.
Winner of the Silver Bear for Best Director at the 1994 Berlin International Film Festival.
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92 mins
Year
1993
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Love is messed up.
This is strange as while I still don't know what to make of Blue due to some artistic decisions I have not yet made heads or tails on and a dull middle section in my opinion, this film suffers from a lack of a unique voice. The film is entertaining sure. I was certainly never bored, and a few ...Read more
This is strange as while I still don't know what to make of Blue due to some artistic decisions I have not yet made heads or tails on and a dull middle section in my opinion, this film suffers from a lack of a unique voice. The film is entertaining sure. I was certainly never bored, and a few moments I found to be very interesting. I would recommend it, but not as much as a Code Unknown, Eraserhead, et cetera.
Read lessbeautiful cinematography, good plot