Three Colors : Blue (1993)

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Cinematography
Music
Editing
Screen Writing
Acting
Directing

One of my birthday gifts this year was a subscription to Filmstruck + Criterion Collection streaming channel.  A great gift.  Criterian provides the supplemental features that are normally only found on their discs.

The first film I watched on the channel was Juliette Binoche in Blue.  What an absolute joy.  Binoche’s acting is marvelous.  Once again she talks so deeply through silence.  Like her recent film L’Attesa, Bincohe plays a grieving woman trying to dull the senses and avoid the world.  .  In L’Attesa the grieving mother tries to get to know her dead son’s girlfriend while in Blue the grieving wife discovers her husband’s mistress.  This performance is even better that L’Attesa

Director of Photography Slawomir Idziak is masterful in his use of lighting and shadows.

The music which is an integral part of the story is stirring.  We never know how much the wife wrote for her husband and if it ever gets performed.  Just one of the mystery twists in this powerful film.

One Response to Three Colors : Blue (1993)

  1. Blue is a must seeI haven't see her latest, but "Blue" as you say is one of the best early ones by her. Everything works, the settings, lighting, and especially the music. It holds together with a story the unfolds and builds but leaves enough loose ends to make one wonder what if and why. All just what a well crafted piece should do.