Starts off well, but builds to nothing special

Rating: Null/10 (7 May 2004)

(Spoilers) Juliette Binoche stars as Julie Vignon, a woman in serious need of grief counseling, in Blue, the first of Krzysztof Kieslowski's colors trilogy. The entire time I watched this, the thought kept rolling through my head: "This woman needs to see someone". But that notwithstanding, Blue took me in early and then lost me toward the end. The movie plays a series of events in the life of a woman who wants to completely start over after losing her husband and daughter. Several oddballs come and go into her life, all the while kept at a cold distance by Binoche's Julie. In the beginning, I felt sympathy for Julie (who wouldn't?), but as the film wore on, the lead character's distant emotions began to wear me down, and I lost interest. The little surprises we learn toward the end didn't do too much for me, as Julie seems no better or worse than she did in the beginning. I'll mark this "overrated".