Blue

Resource Information

The work Blue represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Yuma County Library District. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Blue

Statement of responsibility

CAB Productions (Lausanne) ; TOR Studio (Warsaw) ; Eurimages ; France 3 cinéma ; MK2 productions ; produced by Marin Karmitz ; director, Krzysztof Kieslowski ; screenplay, Krzysztof Piesiewicz, Krzysztof Kieslowski ; story by Agnieszka Holland, Slavomir Idziak, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Krzysztof Piesiewicz and Edward Zebrowski

Title variation

• Bleu
• Three Colors Blue
• Trois couleurs Bleu

Contributor

• Miramax Films
• Binoche, Juliette, 1964-
• Kieślowski, Krzysztof, 1941-1996
• Regent, Benoit

Subject

• Video Collection (DVD)
• Women composers -- France | Paris -- Drama
• Feature films -- France
• Foreign films -- France
• Foreign language films -- French
• French language materials
• Grief -- Drama
• Motion pictures, French
• Traffic accidents -- France -- Drama

Genre

• Drama
• Video Collection (DVD)

Language

• fre
• eng
• fre

Summary

"Three colors: Blue is the first part of Kieslowski's trilogy on France's national motto: Liberty, equality, and fraternity. Blue is the story of Julie who loses her husband, an acclaimed European composer, and her young daughter in a car accident. The film's theme of liberty is manifested in Julie's attempt to start life anew free of personal commitments, belongings, grief and love. She intends to spiritually commit suicide by withdrawing from the world and live completely independently, anonymously and in solitude in the Parisian metropolis. Despite her intentions, people from her former and present life intrude with their own needs. However, the reality created by the people who need and care about her, a surprising discovery and the music around which the film revolves heal Julie and irresistably draws her back to the land of the living"--Internet movie database, September 18, 2003

Member of

• Concert of wishes
• Reflections on Bleu

Cataloging source

HTM

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Original music by Zbigniew Preisner; cinematography by Slawomir Idziak; film editing by Jacques Witta; production design, Claude Lenoir

Date time place

Originally released as a motion picture in Poland (Warsaw) (premiere) 10 January 1993; France 8 September 1993

Language note

In French with English subtitles

LC call number

PN1997.25.F8

LC item number

K547 T761 1993 dvd

PerformerNote

Juliette Binoche (Julie); Benoît Régent (Olivier); Florence Pernel (Sandrine); Charlotte Véry (Lucille); Hélène Vincent (journalist); Philippe Volter (estate agent); Claude Duneton (doctor); Hugues Quester (Patrice)

Runtime

98

Series statement

Three colors the exclusive collection

Technique

live action