yes its very good, but that music

Rating: 8/10 (1 January 2006)

Yes indeed, 'Blue' is a wonderful movie, containing some of the best film-making of the last decades or so. Binoche's role is as perfect as possible. Lighting is splendid, even though the use of filters is quite obvious. But that music! The score is an integral part of the story, or better, the essence of this film, and it is, in one word, horrible. I'm very sorry. This is very bad music. Like Mozart, as one reviewer thought? No way, Mozart is always light, and when he isn't, like in the requiem, he is profound. The score is neither. It's pretty personal, I know. But imagine what an Alban Berg-like score would bring to this movie. Or any twentieth-century informed music for that matter. Here we are stuck with music as boring as a Gorecki-symphony, endearing for a minute or two, but containing absolutely nothing.