Tuesday, June 05, 2007
LIBERTY
Today's NYTimes Best 1176 Film was the first film in Krzysztof Kieslowski's
Trois couleurs: Bleu / Blue (1993)
This is a beautifully rendered film about a woman who has lost her composer husband and their daughter in an auto crash. Now she goes to work to find herself.
Juliette Binoche is the woman.
The film is beautiful to watch. Great cinematography. Beautiful angles. Always some blue going on.
The idea of the three colors is to honor France; Kieslowski's new work-home.
Each color will be presented. The themes will be liberty, equality, fraternity.
We saw this director's work earlier in the ten one hour films of The Decalogue which was innovative and riveting.
I am looking forward to seeing the next two in this 'package' over the next few days.
Incidentally, this film was the NYTimes Best. Others find that Red is their favorite and others White.
Whatever.
This gets a 5 out of Netflix5.
