We arrive at the two scenes that bring all of the strands of “Three Colors: Blue” together. But I don’t want to write about them, not the same way I usually do. Recounting the dialogue, trying to describe the camera shots and the actors’ reaction, it’s all just too small. It’s taken me multiple viewings…
Kieslowski stretches out the mystery a little longer. Julie goes to visit her mother and stands at the window of her home, observing her watching a man walk a tightrope. She stares for a few seconds and decides to walk off. The symphony begins playing in her head as she slowly walks off. It’s a…
I have noted before similarities between “Three Colors: Blue” and “Drive My Car.” Both movies include a highly mysterious character. But in the case of “Drive My Car,” it’s a character who dies early in the film. In “Blue,” it’s the protagonist herself who is a mystery. It’s a different type of mystery in this…