Three colors: blue
| Movie | |
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| German title | Three colors: blue |
| Original title | Trois couleurs: Bleu |
| Country of production |
France Poland |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1993 |
| length | 100 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Krzysztof Kieślowski |
| script |
Agnieszka Holland Sławomir Idziak Krzysztof Kieślowski Krzysztof Piesiewicz Edward Żebrowski |
| production | Marin Karmitz |
| music |
Zbigniew Preisner Van den Budenmayer |
| camera | Sławomir Idziak |
| cut | Jacques Witta |
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Three colors: Blue is the first part of a feature film - trilogy ( three-color trilogy ) by Polish director Krzysztof Kieślowski on the catchwords of the French Revolution - freedom, equality and fraternity - named after the three colors of the French flag : blue, white , Red. The theme of the first film in the trilogy is freedom .
action
The film begins with a serious traffic accident. Julie, who survived alone and lost her only daughter and her husband, Patrice, a famous composer , is not trying to come to terms with the situation or to cope with her grief. A suicide attempt fails. Then she breaks radically with her previous life, tries to flee from her own memory and builds a completely new existence for herself. She goes to Paris , where she leads a life with almost no contact with other people. She hires a broker to sell the country estate on which the family lived and destroys her husband's old notations . In the course of the plot, however, she fails to keep up this way of life. The freedom that the protagonist chooses by wanting to part with all things of the previous life does not lead to the desired goal. Only when she lets herself into the past, makes contact with an old friend and continues to work on her husband's unfinished composition, does she manage to free herself from her pain.
Subject
The film shows the subjective perspective of a grieving woman who has lost her family. The film should show how she reacts to her environment, what she pays attention to, what is important to her, said Kieślowski.
Reviews
The lexicon of international film praised Kieślowski's directorial work in its contemporary criticism as an interesting film about life, love, memory and forgetting, but many of the existential questions raised take a back seat to the opulent equipment and are only vaguely recognizable. Despite these weaknesses, Three Colors: Blue is worth discussing.
Awards
Three colors: blue has been nominated for numerous film awards and has received several main prizes.
- Krzysztof Kieślowski was awarded a Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1993 for his film . Juliette Binoche received a Coppa Volpi for best female leading role. Sławomir Idziak the Golden Osella for the best camera work.
- In 1993 , Zbigniew Preisner received a Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for the best film music .
- In 1994 Juliette Binoche was awarded a César for the best female lead. Other Césars went to Jacques Witta for the best editing and Jean-Claude Laureux and William Flageollet for the best soundtrack.
- The Guild of German Film Art Theaters awarded the film the Gilde Film Prize in gold in 1994 .
- Also in 1994 Kieslowski received a Goya Award for the best European film for Three Colors: Blue .
- In 1994, Kieślowski and Binoche each received a Sant Jordi from the Radio Nacional de España for the best foreign film and the best foreign actress .
Film music
The film music written by Zbigniew Preisner plays a central role. The focus is on the Song for the Unification of Europe , a composition by Patrices for choir and orchestra with the text of the Song of Songs from the 13th chapter of 1st Corinthians , which is completed by Julie. Van den Budenmayer is named as the composer of the funeral music, which occurs in several versions (wind instruments, organ, orchestra) , although it is a pseudonym of Preisner.
Web links
- Three Colors: Blue in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Footnotes
- ^ Tadeusz Sobolewski: Blue Lollipop . In: Renata Bernard, Steven Woodward (eds.): Krzysztof Kieslowski. Interviews . 2016. 1993.
- ↑ cf. Lexicon of International Films 2000/2001 (CD-ROM), see also Three Colors: Blue. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed November 12, 2017 .
- ↑ Tobias Wollermann (2002): On the music in the “Three Colors” trilogy by Krzysztof Kieślowski . Osnabrück: epOs-music. ISBN 3-923486-38-3