The Three Colours Trilogy by Krzysztof Kieślowski

Blue, White and Red are the names of the movies and in my opinion they're some of the finest, sophisticated movies ever made, or at least that I've ever seen. They represent the French flag and each movie represents the ideals of the French: Liberty (blue), Equality (white), and Friendship (red). All three of the films are interconnected in some way. They're made in French but thank goodness for English subtitles!

Blue begins with a car crash on a remote highway, witnessed by a teenage boy who will later make contact with the only survivor. It is simultaneously the least spectacular and most real car crash imaginable: in an earlier sequence, we have seen brake fluid leaking ominously after a car was speeding along in a bluish haze. Now, in a split-second, we turn with the boy to see the car hit a tree – but with no petrol explosions or drama. It is dream-like, but highly plausible. The fatalities are a renowned composer and his young child; the composer's wife Julie (Juliette Binoche) is badly hurt but still alive. After watching live television coverage of his funeral, immobile on her hospital bed, she finally recovers, sells everything she owns, and lives incognito in Paris. The reason? Is it anguish, grief, rage at fate, and unresolved questions about her late husband's fidelity and his assistant's feelings for her?

In White, a Polish immigrant hairdresser in Paris, Karol, is being divorced from Dominique (Julie Delpy) because he cannot satisfy her sexually. They were happy enough before they were married, but something about being married, and achieving prosperity in the comparative luxury of France, has unmanned him. Obsessed with his tauntingly gorgeous ex-wife, Karol conceives a plan to get back to Poland, becomes wealthy, and contrives a new scheme to get back at Dominique. It's humorous, and it's dark. If you ever felt like getting revenge on your ex then you'll probably relate to this movie.

In Red, Juliette Binoche plays Valentine, a student and part-time fashion model in Geneva, plagued by calls from her controlling and jealous boyfriend in England. A quirk of fate causes her to call upon a cantankerous and retired judge, played by Jean-Louis Trintignant, an aggressive malcontent with an illegal hobby. Remembered dreams are an important theme in Kieslowski, and importantly, the judge tells Valentine that he has had a dream about her. The dream is never shown on screen, merely recalled, but it is perhaps the most poignant part of the trilogy: a dream of Valentine's future, which she finds moving, for reasons she cannot explain.

The amount of depth in each film, and little Easter eggs, will make you want to pay attention to every little detail of the movie. I hope you check these movies out, they'll make you love film even more. You can rent them on Amazon for $4 each movie.

Submitted February 18, 2018 at 10:11PM by EvanSt19 http://ift.tt/2GkYdPF