Three Colors: Blue
Three Colors Blue French Trois couleurs Bleu is a 1993 French drama film written, produced, and directed by the acclaimed Polish director Krzysztof Kielowski. Blue is the first of three films that comprise The Three Colors Trilogy, themed on the French Revolutionary ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity it is followed by White and Red. According to Kielowski, the subject of the film is liberty, specifically emotional liberty, rather than its social or political meaning.
Julie Juliette Binoche, wife of the famous composer Patrice de Courcy, must cope with the death of her husband and daughter in an automobile accident she herself survives. While recovering in hospital, Julie attempts suicide by overdose, but cannot swallow the pills. After being released from hospital, Julie, who it is suggested wrote or helped to write much of her husbands famous pieces, destroys what is left behind of them. Calling Olivier Benot Rgent, an unmarried collaborator of her husbands who has always admired her, she spends a night with him and says goodbye. Emptying the family house and putting it up for sale, she takes an apartment in Paris without telling anyone, her only memento being a mobile of blue beads that the viewer assumes belonged to her daughter.Julie disassociates herself from all past memories and distances herself from former friendships, even being no longer recognised by her mother, who suffers from Alzheimers disease. She also reclaims and destroys the unfinished score for her late husbands last commissioned worka piece celebrating European unity following the end of the Cold War. Snatches of its music, however, haunt her throughout the film. ........
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