Kieslowski - Three Colors Trilogy - Poll

many many memorable moments/images in blue

lollipop wrapper blowing in the wind, kids jumping into the pool, the sugarcube, the final montage

The lollipop wrapper in the wind is luscious. I don't dislike anything you mentioned, but when I think of Blue the first thing that comes to mind is Binoche scraping her knuckles, and those stabs of classical music.

i like the kids jumping into the pool too but honestly it is pretty hard not to roll your eyes at juliette binoche floating in the FETAL POSITION in a pool which is GUESS WHICH COLOR and then agreeing to hang out with the prostitute after which A WHOLE BUNCH OF YELLING PEOPLE PILE INTO THE PREVIOUSLY EMPTY POOL DO YOU SEE

I love the expression of silent contempt when Binoche watches that old woman struggle and fail to stick her plastic bottle in the recycling bin.

nah even that's better in white -- his reassured smirk at knowing that there are people worse off than him.

I kinda feel like blue as a whole is kind of eye-rolly? could write the whole thing off like eh europeans are saddo classicals but for me you either go with the melodrama or not and I'm all in

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/sugar.jpg

I kinda feel like blue as a whole is kind of eye-rolly? could write the whole thing off like eh europeans are saddo classicals but for me you either go with the melodrama or not and I'm all in

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yeah this is all true and sometimes i am in too.

That's why I prefer Red.

A review at that time called Blue "an exquisite tone poem." Then added: "But movies aren't poems."

no movies are pineapples made of sound and images

intellectually it's easy to reason out why red is the better picture but blue works on my emotions like music and that's a magical thing so it gets the banana

(last minute campaigning)

my only bit of last-minute campaigning for white would be to remind people of the line "my god... home at last" followed immediately by the awesome theme song

Yes, that was a beautiful scene, including the leadup to it: Karol fighting, "Look out! He has scissors!" The gulls swarming above the field.

Also great: Karol and Mikolaj sliding across the frozen pond, Mikolaj screaming wordlessly.

Think White could pull an upset here.

yeah that's not gonna happen

it will be red blue white

but everybody feel free to prove me wrong

I'm going to count 2nd as an upset, if it happens. Still a slim chance I know.

white will not pull an upset here, but i really do love it, so much more earthy, sardonic and spirited than the other two

somehow when i opened this thread i knew 'veronique' was gonna come up and that alfred was gonna deem it dull!

voted blue, which i remember chiefly for juliette binoche's incredible performance and the masterful way that kieslowski stages the opening car crash - lyrical and terrifying cinema.

veronique is my favourite, i;m total sucker for 'supernatural' art movies

I didn't find the "metaphysics" of Veronique compelling, and without that armature the two stories weren't either. He paced the protagonist's musing and noodling more interesting in Blue and Red.

Moreover, maybe it's her age but Irene Jacob's guilelessness was less sticky in Red.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

I didn't find the "metaphysics" of Veronique compelling, and without that armature the two stories weren't either. He paced the protagonist's musing and noodling more interesting in Blue and Red.

it's the storytelling that's so beautiful in veronique, i think; kieslowski's so confident, and thinks highly enough of his audience to tell the stories v sparely + elliptically, leaving us to fill in the jumps and blanks. seeing her musing + noodling, detached and inert, pretty much separated from the urgency of the guys she hangs out with and the transience of everything else going on, becomes this compelling, involving focus, to me. it's one of my favourites, on account of just how well it's accessorised & presented & what it elicits in me as a character study.

nah even that's better in white -- his reassured smirk at knowing that there are people worse off than him.

I may be mis-remembering, but I thought Karol was asleep, no?

wiki sez:

A recurring image related to the spirit of the film is that of elderly people recycling bottles; in Three Colors: White, an old man in Paris is trying to recycle a bottle but cannot reach the container and Karol looks at him with a sinister grin on his face (in the spirit of equality). In Three Colors: Blue, an old woman in Paris is recycling bottles and Julie does not notice her (in the spirit of freedom); in Three Colors: Red an old woman cannot reach the hole of the container and Valentine helps her (in the spirit of solidarity).

so it may be blue you're thinking of; i think binoche's eyes are closed.

Saw Blue for the first time ever tonight (another one I taped years ago, but held out for a chance to see all three in a theatre). I guess I was in just the right mood; liked it a lot. Looking forward to White tomorrow and Red on Sunday.

i think blue is the weakest, white is v underrated

I'm gonna buy all three of these this week, I'm thinking...

The Criterion box is due in November...

White ambled along and held my interest, but I didn't like it nearly as much as Blue. I found the ending puzzling, unless I'm trying to read too much into it. Glad I'll get to finish with the one that won this poll.

Mild spoiler, but the ending of White is explained a bit at the end of Red.

Look forward to it. I missed Delpy's character in Blue--where did she appear?

i don't think you see her, but you hear karol's voice (poor Polish Guy Who Played Karol, doomed forever to be called "karol" by westerners) when binoche sticks her head into the wrong courtroom.

IIRC, you don't really see her, as she isn't in Binoche's pov when she walks into the courtroom. She may just be out of focus.

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That's funny--so I was right when I thought I saw Binoche stick her head in the courtroom in White.

I almost walked out of Red tonight, knowing I could watch my old tape at home; for the first half-hour, there was some technical issue where every couple of minutes the image would scramble for a few seconds. The rest of the way it only happened a couple of times.

I liked Blue the best, then Red, then White. I knew very little going in, so the ending was a complete surprise. You could almost run a separate poll for Binoche/Delpy/Jacob. That would be a tougher call for me.

Is the Criterion box only going to be released on Blu-Ray?

...still looking forward to the Cyan, Magenta and Yellow film cycle trilogy.

Criterion box will be on both standard & blu. Aside from the odd special feature, they have yet to do a "blu only" title.

Looking for it on Amazon and coming up only with bluray, but maybe I should check their website...?

Cyan, Magenta and Yellow

Colors asscoiated with what, policially?

Found it on Amazon. It was probably just a glitch.

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Don't forget the tragically unfinished Black.

Thanks loads Grisso. Probably just had problems bcz I'm on my phone.

After I saw Blue last month, I was thinking about how its ending would seem to be the basis for similar scenes in Donnie Darko ("Mad World") and Magnolia ("Wise Up")--the camera gliding over various characters in different places as pretty music plays in the background. I like all three scenes a lot. Is there anything that predates Blue in that vein, or is it the blueprint?

Around the same time, Altman did it with "To Hell with Love" in Short Cuts.

how totally weird this thread exists and i see it - i watched blue for the 2nd time yesterday, pretty much depriving myself the next day (today) of a couple hours sleep so i could watch it continuously. i loved the movie the first time and really came to appreciate it this viewing. i really thinks its mostly for reasons of subject matter, whereas i find white/red to be interesting stories; there was just something so utterly ridiculous yet so, so, so believably about juliette binoche's performance as a woman who grieves in all the wrong ways. i'm honestly obsessive enough that i've rewound to specific points of the movie in which she cuts a person off squarely with a solid, curt "No". Jesus.

After I saw Blue last month, I was thinking about how its ending would seem to be the basis for similar scenes in Donnie Darko ("Mad World")

one of the things I liked about donnie darko was the clear nod to blue

according to imdb blue and short cuts screened at the venice film festival in '93, though blue was shown earlier in jan at the warsaw film festival

had no memory of red bowling-ball shot

(or much else)