Beautiful and colorful

Rating: 10/10 (3 August 2006)

Kieslowski is one of those filmmakers whose framing, lighting, composition, and aspects of mise-en-scene basically bleed symbolism and interpretive meaning. This film is a virtual festival of light and color, though set under a rather murky tone... everything one comes to expect from this auteur.
For me the experience was most engaging because of the way he seemed to use colors to denote different types of space: red for dramatic space, green for outside space, white for balanced space, and of course blue for personal or internal space. Not to say that this holds directly throughout; green is also around a lot during natural and life-giving moments and blue is used so much and in so many shades that it can mean a lot of different things. However, of the trilogy, this is the movie that most saturates the colors, spreading them over a bright canvas and making it impossible to ignore.
It's also the most abstract, starting with a non-literal composition and finishing with a broken and open ending.
It is, at any rate, very enticing and beautiful. It's one of those films that can take as much time as it likes and one doesn't begrudge the extra minutes staring at a person wrestling with internal thoughts.
--PolarisDiB