Three Colors: Blue @ Robert Classic French Film Festival - N.A. - (St Louis, MO)

Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1993, 100 minimum., color, Blu-ray projection source In the moving 1st film of Krzysztof Kieslowski's 3 Colors trilogy (each part tells a stand-alone story), Juliette Binoche gives a tour-de-force performance as Julie, a woman reeling from the tragic death of her husband and young daughter. But Blue is more than just a blistering study of grief; its also a tale of liberation, as Julie attempts to free herself from the past while confronting truths about the life of her late husband, a composer. Shot in sapphire tones by Sawomir Idziak, and set to an extraordinary operatic score by Zbigniew Preisner, Blue is an overwhelming sensory experience. In the LA Times, Kenneth Turan observes: It is a mark of the virtuosity with which director Krzysztof Kieslowski has made Blue that it is possible to envision its intensely emotional story of a woman's search for meaning after tragedy unhinges her life becoming, with slight tinkering