Three Colors: White
Three Colors White French Trois couleurs Blanc is a 1994 FrenchPolish comedydrama art film cowritten, produced, and directed by Krzysztof Kielowski. White is the second in The Three Colors Trilogy, themed on the French Revolutionary ideals, following Blue and preceding Red. The film was selected as the Polish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 67th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
After opening with a brief, seemingly irrelevant scene of a suitcase on an airport carousel, the story quickly focuses on a Paris divorce court where Karol Karol Zbigniew Zamachowski is pleading with the judge the same legal proceedings that Juliette Binoches character briefly stumbled upon in Blue. The immigrant Karol, despite his difficulty in understanding French, is made to understand that his wife Dominique Julie Delpy does not love him. The grounds for divorce are humiliating Karol was unable to consummate the marriage. Along with his wife, he loses his means of support a beauty salon they jointly owned, his legal residency in France, and the rest of his cash in a series of mishaps, and is soon a beggar. He only retains afranc coin.In a Paris Mtro station, performing songs for spare change, Karol meets and is befriended by another Pole, Mikoaj Janusz Gajos. While Karol has lost his wife and his property, Mikoaj is married and successful he offers Karol a job consisting of killing someone who wants to be dead but does not have enough courage to do it himself. Through a hazardous scheme, Mikoaj helps him return to Poland hidden in the suitcase shown at the beginning of the film, which is later stolen by employees at the airport. He returns to working as a hairdresser with his brother Jerzy Stuhr. ........
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