My friend Eleanor, over at Thatchwick, recently posted a review on
the film Blue, 1994. Being a huge fan of Juliette Binoche, I
immediately added it to my Netflix queue. I certainly wasn't
disappointed in this powerful, sensual, quiet and intelligent film. It
is the first in a trilogy of films created by Krzysztof Kieslowski and
his writing partner Krzysztof Piesiewicz for France's bicentennial,
yet stands very well on it's own merits. The titles and the themes
of the films come from the three colors of the French flag
representing liberty, equality, and fraternity. Blue examines
liberation through the eyes of a woman (Binoche) who loses her
famous composer husband and young daughter in an auto accident.
Overcome with mystery and tragedy, she struggles to come to
terms with the secrets of her dead husband's career and life.
Kieslowski masterfully weaves the haunting musical score with a
subdued color pallet of blues. I think this just might be Binoche's
best performance ever, in this story of loss, forgiveness and
liberation.
