Three Colors: Red

Three Colors Red French Trois couleurs Rouge is a 1994 film cowritten, produced, and directed by Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Kielowski. It is the final film of The Three Colors Trilogy, which examines the French Revolutionary ideals it is preceded by Blue and White. Kielowski had announced that this would be his final film, which proved true with the directors sudden death in 1996. Red is about fraternity, which it examines by showing characters whose lives gradually become closely interconnected, with bonds forming between two characters who appear to have little in common.

The film begins with clips that track a telephone call between London and Geneva, where a university student and parttime model, Valentine Dussault Irne Jacob, is talking to her emotionally infantile and possessive boyfriend. During her work as a model she poses for a chewinggum campaign and during the photo shoot the photographer asks her to look very sad. While walking back home, Auguste, a neighbour of Valentines, drops a set of books, notices that a particular chapter of the Criminal Code opened at random, and concentrates on that passage. As she drives back to her apartment, Valentine is distracted while adjusting the radio and accidentally hits a dog. She tracks down the owner, a reclusive retired judge, Joseph Kern JeanLouis Trintignant. He seems unconcerned by the accident or the injuries sustained by Rita, his dog. Valentine takes Rita to a veterinarian, where she learns that Rita is pregnant. Valentine takes the dog home. Later, money is delivered to her apartment from an unnamed sender.Whilst Valentine is walking Rita the next day the dog runs away and Valentine eventually finds her back at Kerns house. She asks and he confirms that the money sent to her came from him, for the vet bill. He then tells Valentine she can have the dog. A short time later Valentine finds Kern eavesdropping on his neighbours private telephone conversations. The judge challenges Valentine to go tell the neighbours and initially she goes to do so. She visits the neighbours house, which appears, on the surface, to contain a contented nuclear family, causing her to change her mind about exposing their secrets. She returns to Kerns house and Kern tells her that it would make no difference if she denounced him for his spying because the peoples lives he listens to would eventually turn into hell anyway. She leaves saying that she feels nothing but pity for him. ........

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