Wonderfully complex psychological drama

Rating: Null/10 (27 March 2007)

"Blue" (Polish/French, 1993): Starring Juliette Binoche, and created by Krzysztof Kieslowski. It is the first in a trilogy of films ("Blue", "White", "Red"). Worthy of your time...they are wonderfully complex psychological dramas, I will see them over and over. Aside from the obvious use of colors within each film, and some of the symbolism (which I suspect the European art crowd finds nicely elitist in that secret-society way, no one will absorb the full depth of these characters after one viewing. I also suspect that the issues portrayed in "Blue" are related to European politics and issues of solidarity, represented by various characters and circumstances. You'll continue thinking about them, and, fortunately, they are open enough to use as comparisons (symbols) within your own life. That begins to reach Art. The color photography is superb, the scoring, although perhaps over-extended, is also superb.