Goodbye, Blue Sky

Rating: 10/10 (16 August 2018)

WARNING: THIS REVIEW ALSO CONTAINS SPOILERS ABOUT THREE COLORS: RED AND THREE COLORS: WHITE
Blue was a beautiful film. As I have seen all three colors by now, I have realized how kind this entire series is. All the characters are stuck somewhere in their lives, and at the end of Three Colors Red, they all stay alive after a ferry accident which shows that, in a way, they got unstuck and life still goes on.
Blue is about a woman who loses her husband and daughter. I loved it how her pain is not cinematically over exaggerated as many directors would have done. It was shown in simple and non close-up ways, such as Julie swallowing medical pills but spitting them out, because she simply could not do that. I think that's why I say this movie was so kind - because it was extremely honest. I believed Julie's reaction to her husband's mistress, I believed her character, and all else about her.
I liked the use of the color blue in here. It was Julie's color. Especially the jar hanging from her ceiling and the blue of the pool. Those colors represented her inner world for me: very calm, but at the same time radiant.
I loved how Julie felt the music. There was a black screen, music - and then we were thrown back into the world in the same place and time where we were left. This is quite a unique cinematic technique, as fade to black usually means a change in scene.
And in general, the music here was magnificent.
One thing I noticed is that in all three films of colors, something life changing first happens to the characters, and later they make an unexpected decisions, that leads to the situation of being stuck to ease out a little bit...