Three Colours trilogy

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Template:Short description Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Hatnote list' not found.Template:DMCA

Template:Infobox film/short descriptionPage Module:Infobox/styles.css has no content.

Three Colours
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:InfoboxImage/data' not found.
Page Module:Infobox/styles.css has no content.
Script error: No such module "lang".Trois Couleurs
Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters".
Directed byKrzysztof Kieślowski
Written byPage Template:Plainlist/styles.css has no content.
  • Krzysztof Kieślowski
  • Krzysztof Piesiewicz
Produced byMarin Karmitz
StarringPage Template:Plainlist/styles.css has no content.
CinematographyPage Template:Plainlist/styles.css has no content.
Edited byJacques Witta
Music byZbigniew Preisner
Page Template:Plainlist/styles.css has no content.
Distributed byPage Template:Plainlist/styles.css has no content.
  • mk2 Diffusion (France)
  • Rialto Film (Switzerland)
Page Template:Plainlist/styles.css has no content.
  • Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:GetParameters' not found.
  • Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:GetParameters' not found.
  • Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:GetParameters' not found.
Running time
Page Template:Plainlist/styles.css has no content.
  • 288 minutes
  • 94 minutes (Blue)
  • 88 minutes (White)
  • 99 minutes (Red)
Template:Pluralize from textPage Template:Plainlist/styles.css has no content.
  • France
  • Poland
  • Switzerland
Template:Pluralize from textPage Template:Plainlist/styles.css has no content.
  • French
  • Polish (White)
Box office$6.1 million

Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "[".Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters".

The Three Colours trilogy (Template:Langx, Template:Langx) is the collective title of three psychological drama films directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski, co-written by Kieślowski and Krzysztof Piesiewicz (with story consultants Agnieszka Holland and Sławomir Idziak), produced by Marin Karmitz and composed by Zbigniew Preisner. The trilogy consists of Three Colours: Blue (1993), Three Colours: White (1994), and Three Colours: Red (1994). The trilogy, while not sharing a specific storyline, thematically examines the French Revolutionary ideals, and is interconnected, particularly in Red, with cameo appearances of characters from Blue and White.

Represented by the Flag of France, the trilogy is an international co-production between France, Poland, and Switzerland in the French language, with the exception of White in Polish and French. All three films garnered widespread acclaim from reviews, with Red receiving nominations for Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Cinematography at the 67th Academy Awards.

Themes

Blue, white, and red are the colours of the French flag in hoist-to-fly order, and the story of each film is loosely based on one of the three political ideals in the motto of the French Republic: liberty, equality, fraternity. As with the treatment of the Ten Commandments in Dekalog, the illustration of these principles is often ambiguous and ironic. As Kieślowski noted in an interview with an Oxford University student newspaper: "The words [liberté, egalité, fraternité] are French because the money [to fund the films] is French. If the money had been of a different nationality, we would have titled the films differently, or they might have had a different cultural connotation. But the films would probably have been the same".[1]

The trilogy has also been interpreted by film critic Roger Ebert as, respectively, an anti-tragedy, an anti-comedy, and an anti-romance.[2]

Connections and patterns

A symbol common to the three films is that of an underlying link or thing that keeps the protagonist linked to their past. In the case of Blue, it is the lamp of blue beads, and a symbol seen throughout the film in the TV of people falling (doing either sky diving or bungee jumping); the director is careful to show falls with no cords at the beginning of the film, but as the story develops the image of cords becomes more and more apparent as a symbol of a link to the past. In the case of White the item that links Karol to his past is a 2 Fr. coin and a plaster bust of Marianne[3] that he steals from an antique store in Paris. In the case of Red, the judge never closes or locks his doors and his fountain pen, which stops working at a crucial point in the story.[4]

Another recurring image related to the spirit of the film is that of elderly people recycling bottles: In Blue, an old woman in Paris is recycling bottles and Julie does not notice her (in the spirit of freedom); in White, an old man also 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); and in Red, an old woman cannot reach the hole of the container and Valentine helps her (in the spirit of fraternity).

In Blue, while Julie is searching for her husband's mistress in the central courthouse, she accidentally steps into an active court trial and is immediately turned around by security. While Julie is peeking into the courtroom, Karol from White can be heard pleading to the judge in a scene that begins his chapter of the trilogy.

Each film's ending shot is of a character crying. In Blue, Julie de Courcy cries looking into space. In White, Karol cries as he looks at his wife. In Red, the judge Kern cries as he looks through his broken window out at the camera.

Many main characters from Blue and White, including Julie and Karol, appear at the ending of Red as survivors of a ferry accident.

Principal cast

Three Colours: Blue
Three Colours: White
Three Colours: Red

Soundtrack

Script error: No such module "Unsubst-infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters". Script error: No such module "Labelled list hatnote". Music for all three parts of the trilogy was composed by Zbigniew Preisner and performed by Silesian Philharmonic choir along with Sinfonia Varsovia.

Reception

Film Rotten Tomatoes Metacritic
Blue 96% (57 reviews)[5] 87 (11 reviews)[6]
White 91% (56 reviews)[7] 91 (11 reviews)[8]
Red 100% (62 reviews)[9] 100 (11 reviews)[10]

The trilogy as a whole topped The San Diego Union-TribuneTemplate:'s list of the best films of 1994,[11] ranked third on San Jose Mercury News writer Glenn Lovell's year-end list,[12] ten on a list by Michael Mills of The Palm Beach Post,[13] and was also on unranked top-tens list by Tulsa WorldTemplate:'s Dennis King[14] and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution critics Eleanor Ringel and Steve Murray.[15] Roger Ebert ranked the trilogy as a whole at No. 5 on his list of the "Best films of 1990s" and included it in his "Great Movies" list.[16][17] Empire magazine ranked it #11 and #14 on their "The 33 Greatest Movie Trilogies" and "The 100 Best Films of World Cinema" lists respectively.[18][19]

References

Page Template:Reflist/styles.css has no content.

  1. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Abrahamson, Patrick (2 June 1995). "Kieslowski's Many Colours". Oxford University Student newspaper. Archived from the original on 19 February 2020. Retrieved 7 December 2020.
  2. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Ebert, Roger (9 March 2003). "Three Colors Trilogy: Blue, White, Red". RogerEbert.com. Archived from the original on 13 April 2013. Retrieved 17 January 2017.
  3. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Skrodzka-Bates, Aga (2011). "Clandestine human and cinematic passages in the United Europe: The Polish Plumber and Kieślowski's hairdresser". Studies in Eastern European Cinema. 2: 75–90. doi:10.1386/seec.2.1.75_1. S2CID 145608963.
  4. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Leong, Anthony. "Demystifying Three Colors: Blue". Media Circus. Archived from the original on 26 October 2002. Retrieved 30 October 2011.
  5. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Three Colours: Blue". Rotten Tomatoes. Archived from the original on 29 August 2023. Retrieved 14 December 2025.
  6. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Three Colours: Blue (1993): Reviews". Metacritic. Archived from the original on 22 April 2023. Retrieved 2 December 2009.
  7. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Three Colours: White (1994)". Rotten Tomatoes. Archived from the original on 25 June 2023. Retrieved 14 December 2025.
  8. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Three Colours: White (1994): Reviews". Metacritic. Archived from the original on 28 May 2023. Retrieved 8 July 2023.
  9. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Three Colours: Red (1994)". Rotten Tomatoes. Archived from the original on 30 April 2023. Retrieved 14 December 2025.
  10. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Three Colours: Red (1994): Reviews". Metacritic. Archived from the original on 19 November 2022. Retrieved 8 July 2023.
  11. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Elliott, David (25 December 1994). "On the big screen, color it a satisfying time". The San Diego Union-Tribune (1, 2 ed.). p. E=8.
  12. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Lovell, Glenn (25 December 1994). "The Past Picture Show the Good, the Bad and the Ugly -- a Year Worth's of Movie Memories". San Jose Mercury News (Morning Final ed.). p. 3.
  13. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Mills, Michael (30 December 1994). "It's a Fact: 'Pulp Fiction' Year's Best". The Palm Beach Post (Final ed.). p. 7.
  14. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.King, Dennis (25 December 1994). "SCREEN SAVERS in a Year of Faulty Epics, The Oddest Little Movies Made The Biggest Impact". Tulsa World (Final Home ed.). p. E1.
  15. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."The Year's Best". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. 25 December 1994. p. K/1.
  16. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Ebert's 10 Best Lists: 1967–present". Chicago Sun-Times. Archived from the original on September 8, 2006.
  17. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Three Colors Trilogy: Blue, White, Red (1993-1994)". Chicago Sun-Times. Archived from the original on 18 December 2018. Retrieved 11 May 2022.
  18. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."The 33 Greatest Movie Trilogies". Empire. 5 August 2023. Archived from the original on 20 December 2022. Retrieved 24 July 2021.
  19. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."The 100 Best Films Of World Cinema". Empire. 2019. Archived from the original on 23 November 2015. Retrieved 28 June 2023.

Page Module:Side box/styles.css has no content.Page Template:Sister project/styles.css has no content.

Page Template:Plainlist/styles.css has no content.
Script error: No such module "Sister project logo".
Wikiquote has quotations related to Three Colours trilogy.

Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Navbox/configuration' not found.

Retrieved from "https://cosmopedia.co/index.php?title=Three_Colours_trilogy&oldid=432171"