Boo

Rating: 2/10 (9 April 2010)

A woman tries to cope with the death of her husband, a famous composer, and child in a car accident. This is the first of a trilogy of films about colors by Kieslowski, and it is about as pretentious as one would expect with such a contrived premise. OK, we get it that grieving equates with blue, but the director raises the indulgence quotient to extreme levels with weird sound and visual effects. Sporadically, the screen goes dark - it's not clear if this is symbolic of the widow's mental state or just a case of sloppy editing. Binoche is a good actress but she isn't given much to work with here. The film just rambles on pointlessly, with one tedious scene after another.