Three comments: Blue

Rating: 6/10 (21 October 2003)

Julie mourns the death of her husband, but had she already lost him when he died in the accident? Had he, in turn, already lost her? In exercising the freedom to do as they pleased in life, had they misused their liberty, thereby becoming each other's prisoner? Was Julie only mourning the death of her husband and daughter, or was her grief further aggravated by the knowledge that she had failed as a wife and mother?
Juliette Binoche is asked to do something in this film which is, in and of itself, a great challenge for any performer: she is directed to portray an uninteresting character, a woman who is so grieved and burdened by her past that she is barely able to keep the movie afloat. That she succeeds in doing so illustrates the tremendous talent she possesses, although she is undoubtedly assisted by the ingenious use of editing, which combines brilliant displays of the colors blue and green, and music that transcends the screen and reaches the viewer's soul.