Three Colors: Blue (1993)

Directed by: Krzysztof Kieślowski
Starring: Juliette Binoche, Benoît Régent, Emmanuelle Riva, Florence Pernel, Charlotte Véry
Duration: 94'

Julie’s husband Patrice – a famous music composer – and their little daughter, Anna, die in a car crush. Faced with this immense loss, she tries to make a new start and chooses loneliness. No matter the cost. Even if it means sacrificing her great love for music. When a music critic suspects she is behind her husband’s scores, Julie denies any part of the past that might threaten her newly found freedom.

Krzysztof Kieślowski is inspired by the three colors in the French flag and in a world that reflects the cold «blue» he films the small revolutions that mark the boundaries of our personal freedom. Julie’s return to life becomes in the hands of the great Polish director a cinema tale which gradually incarnates the grief of loneliness into a divine praise for love. Brilliant performances topped by Juliette Binoche’s, multi-awarded by the Venice Film Festival and accompanied by the wonderful music of Zbigniew Preisner, «Blue» is a dignified, generous cinema hymn which discovers redemption through oblivion. So now we are left with three things: faith, hope and love. Bigger than all, however, is love. Panos Gkenas

In collaboration with the Plein Air Festival