{"product_id":"three-colors-trilogy-crit","title":"THREE COLORS TRILOGY (CRIT.)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis boldly cinematic trio of stories about love and loss, from Krzysztof Kieślowski was a defining event of the art-house boom of the 1990s. The films are named for the colors of the French flag and stand for the tenets of the French Revolution—liberty, equality, and fraternity—but that hardly begins to explain their enigmatic beauty and rich humanity. Set in Paris, Warsaw, and Geneva, and ranging from tragedy to comedy, Blue, White, and Red (Kieślowski's final film) examine with artistic clarity a group of ambiguously interconnected people experiencing profound personal disruptions. Marked by intoxicating cinematography and stirring performances by such actors as Juliette Binoche, Julie Delpy, Irène Jacob, and Jean-Louis Trintignant, Kieślowski's Three Colors is a benchmark of contemporary cinema.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (1993)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn the devastating first film of Krzysztof Kieślowski's Three Colors trilogy, Juliette Binoche gives a tour de force performance as Julie, a woman reeling from the tragic death of her husband and young daughter. But Blue is more than just a blistering study of grief; it's also a tale of liberation, as Julie attempts to free herself from the past while confronting truths about the life of her late husband, a composer. Shot in sapphire tones by Sławomir Idziak, and set to an extraordinary operatic score by Zbigniew Preisner, Blue is an overwhelming sensory experience.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhite\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (1994)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe most playful and also the grittiest of Krzysztof Kieślowski'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'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 on twisted love.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRed\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (1994)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eKrzysztof Kieślowski closes his Three Colors trilogy in grand fashion, with an incandescent meditation on fate and chance, starring Irène Jacob as a sweet-souled yet somber runway model in Geneva whose life dramatically intersects with that of a bitter retired judge, played by Jean-Louis Trintignant. Meanwhile, just down the street, a seemingly unrelated story of jealousy and betrayal unfolds. 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