Three colours: Blue

This is a French film which directed by Krzysztof Kieslowski, who is a Polish director. This film won:

• Venice Film Festival, 1993: Best Film and Juliette Binoche, Best Actress, Best Cinematography
•  César Award, 1993: Best Actress: Juliette Binoche, Best Sound, Best Film Editing
• Goya Awards (Spain's Academy Awards): Best European Film;

Blue is the first in the three colors trilogy, followed by white and red . The title comes from the colors of French flag.According to Krzysztof Kieslowski,Blue is the symbol of liberty, White is the symbol of equality, and Red is the symbol of fraternity.

In this film, Julie, the heroine who had a happy family of home at firsrt., however, her husband who is a famous composer and her daughter died in a automobile accident except she survived. She became very depressed and attempted suicide by swallowing the pills, but it wasn’t successful. After her discharge from hospital, she moved to a new apartment without telling anybody. She left everything except her daughter’s chandelier of blue bead in order to escape from the suffering of the past. She destroyed her husband’s music scores, included the one celebrating European Unity, following the end of the cold war. By chance, the couple’s friend Olivier get the score, who is in love with Julie and try to complete the score. Meanwhile, Julie discovered his late husband was having a affair and the mistress was pregnant. Julie was  kindhearted and generous who arrange for the mistress to live her late husband's house. Finally, Julie began to build her complete new life without pressure.

The theme of the film was liberty because the entire film descibed the woman how to release herself from past and pursue a complete new life. Blue is the main color in the film, and also is one of three colors on the French flag which symbolizes the  liberty. Meanwhile, the color makes audience feel the atmosphere of  depression and sadness.

Juleitte Binoche acted the heroine in the film. Although the dialogues among characters in the film  were simple, Juleitte showed great prowess at acting through facial expression and body language. Such as Julie bit lips and touched the coffins in the funeral video which showed that she bore the pain with resignation.  Especially, there was a sense touched me deeply. Julie rubbed her hand with wall, which led her hand to bleeding. It implied that she underwent great mental aguish. She released herself from physical pain.  Music went through all the film as a significant element. I like the Symphony which is played off and on in the film. The melody was powerful, inspiring and encouraging, which revealed that Julie couldn't isolation from everything as music couldn't be made with a single note.

Krzysztof Kieślowski, the director, whose style was exquisite. He expressed character mainly through tiny details. Such as Julie was scared because there were a brood of mice in her storage. She even prefered to move again. From the detail, we acknowleged that Julie was a vulnerable actually not as strong as she looked.