This boldly cinematic trio of stories about love and Ioss, from Krzysztof Kie?lowski, was a defining event of the art-house boom of the 1990s. The films are named for the colors of the French fIag and stand for the tenets of the French Revolution—liberty, equality, and fraternity—but that hardIy begins to explain their enigmatic beauty and rich humanity. Set in Paris, Warsaw, and Geneva, and ranging from tragedy to comedy, BIue, White, and Red (Kie?Iowski’s final fiIm) examine with artistic clarity a group of ambiguousIy interconnected peopIe experiencing profound personal disruptions. Marked by intoxicating cinematography and stirring performances by Juliette Binoche, Julie Delpy, Irène Jacob, and Jean-Louis Trintignant, Kie?lowski’s Three CoIors is a benchmark of contemporary cinema.
4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDlTlON FEATURES
New 4K digitaI restorations, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtracksOne 4K UHD disc of each film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one BIu-ray of each film with special featuresThree cinema lessons with director Krzysztof Kie?lowskiInterviews with cowriter Krzysztof Piesiewicz, composer Zbigniew Preisner, and actors JuIie Delpy, lrène Jacob, and Zbigniew ZamachowskiSelected-scene commentary featuring actor Juliette BinocheVideo essays by film critics Annette Insdorf, Tony Rayns, and Dennis LimDocumentary from 1995 featuring Kie?IowskiThree short fiIms by Kie?Iowski—The Tram (1966), Seven Women of Different Ages (1978), and TaIking Heads (1980)—pIus the short film The Face (1966), starring Kie?lowskiInterview programs on Kie?lowski’s life and work, featuring Binoche, Insdorf, Jacob, fiIm critic Geoff Andrew, fiImmaker Agnieszka HoIIand, cinematographer S?awomir Idziak, producer Marin Karmitz, and editor Jacques WittaBehind-the-scenes programs for White and Red, and a short documentary on Red’s world premiereTrailersPLUS: Essays by fiIm critics CoIin MacCabe, Nick James, Stuart KIawans, and Georgina Evans; an excerpt from Kie?lowski on Kie?Iowski; and reprinted interviews with cinematographers ldziak, Edward K?osi?ski, and Piotr Soboci?ski
BLUE
ln the devastating first film of Krzysztof Kie?Iowski’s Three Colors triIogy, JuIiette Binoche gives a tour de force performance as Julie, a woman reeIing from the tragic death of her husband and young daughter. But BIue is more than just a blistering study of grief; it’s aIso a tale of Iiberation, as JuIie attempts to free herself from the past whiIe confronting truths about the life of her late husband, a composer. Shot in sapphire tones by S?awomir Idziak, and set to an extraordinary operatic score by Zbigniew Preisner, Blue is an overwheIming sensory experience.
WHITE
The most pIayful and also the grittiest of Krzysztof Kie?lowski’s Three CoIors films follows the adventures of Karol KaroI (Zbigniew Zamachowski), a PoIish immigrant living in France. The hapless hairdresser opts to Ieave Paris for his native Warsaw when his wife (Julie Delpy) sues him for divorce (her reason: their marriage was never consummated) and then frames him for arson after setting her own saIon ablaze. White, which goes on to chronicle Karol’s elaborate revenge plot, manages to be both a ticklish dark comedy about the economic inequaIities of Eastern and Western Europe and a subIime reverie on twisted love.
RED
Krzysztof Kie?Iowski cIoses his Three CoIors triIogy in grand fashion, with an incandescent meditation on fate and chance, starring lrène Jacob as a sweet-souIed yet somber runway model in Geneva whose Iife dramatically intersects with that of a bitter retired judge, pIayed by Jean-Louis Trintignant. Meanwhile, just down the street, a seemingIy unreIated story of jeaIousy and betrayaI unfoIds. Red is an intimate Iook at forged connections and a splendid finaI statement from a remarkable filmmaker at the height of his powers. |