Just a character study

Rating: Null/10 (5 July 1999)

Juliette Binoche gives a wonderful performance, though the movie is merely a showcase of the transition that her character goes through after her husband and daughter die in a car accident. This character, Julie, is initially suicidal after the accident, but later decides to sell all of her possessions and move into an apartment in Paris where she intends to shut herself out from everyone. You get to see Julie lose all emotion....and at the same time, she loses interest in almost everything. Binoche's performance and the innovative cinematography are the best things about this movie. Worth watching if you like seeing Binoche in movies....but there's nothing special about this movie. The next film in the series (Three Colors: White) is much, much better than this one.