Saturday, January 3, 2009

Trois Couleurs: Bleu (1993)

"Now I have only one thing left to do: nothing. I don't want any belongings, any memories. No friends, no love. Those are all traps."

Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Starring: Juliette Binoche






Juliette Binoche is remarkable. This movie is a work of art. First in the Colors trilogy, I was quieted and awestruck by the silent, gentle way in which Bleu played across the screen. It's about grief and recovery, of fragile things, focusing on a young widow dealing with the death of her husband and daughter. Binoche acts with delicacy and power, holding sorrow in her limbs and conveying the most tenuous of subtleties. Watch this at once.




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