| Three Colours trilogy | |
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| Directed by | Krzysztof Kieślowski |
| Produced by | Marin Karmitz Yvonne Crenn |
| Written by | Krzysztof Piesiewicz Krzysztof Kieślowski |
| Starring | Juliette Binoche Julie Delpy Irène Jacob |
| Music by | Zbigniew Preisner |
| Cinematography | Edward Kłosiński Piotr Sobociński Slawomir Idziak |
| Editing by | Urszula Lesiak |
| Distributed by | Miramax (USA) |
| Release date(s) | 1993 - 1994 |
| Running time | 287 min. |
| Language | French/Polish |
The Three Colours Trilogy (Polish: Trzy kolory) is the collective title of three films – a trilogy – directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski, two made in French and one primarily in Polish: Trois couleurs: Bleu (Three Colours: Blue) (1993), Trzy kolory: Biały (Three Colours: White) (in French: Blanc) (1994), and Trois couleurs: Rouge (Three Colors: Red) (1994). All three were co-written by Kieślowski and Krzysztof Piesiewicz (with story consultants Agnieszka Holland and Sławomir Idziak) and have musical scores by Zbigniew Preisner.
The films were Kieślowski's first major successes in the West, and are his most acclaimed works after The Decalogue.
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Blue, white, and red are the colours of the French flag in left-to-right order, and the story of each film is loosely based on one of the three political ideals in the motto of the French Republic: liberty, equality, fraternity. As with the treatment of the Ten Commandments in The Decalogue, the illustration of these principles is often ambiguous and ironic. As Kieślowski noted in an interview with an Oxford University student newspaper, “The words [liberté, egalité, fraternité] are French because the money [to fund the films] is French. If the money had been of a different nationality we would have titled the films differently, or they might have had a different cultural connotation. But the films would probably have been the same.”
The trilogy are also interpreted respectively as an anti-tragedy, an anti-comedy, and an anti-romance.
Music for all three parts of the trilogy was composed by Zbigniew Preisner and performed by Silesian Philharmonic choir along with Sinfonia Varsovia.
The trilogy was praised by critics. The whole trilogy received ranking of 100 % on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 5 reviews.[1] The first part, Blue got also 100 % based on 32 reviews.[2] Second part of the trilogy, White, was ranked with 90 % based on 32 reviews,[3] while its final film, Red, was certified "Fresh" on the same website and got 98 % "fresh tomatoes" from the critics.[4]
Roger Ebert included the trilogy in its entirety to his "Great Movies" list.[5]
Ranked #11 in Empire magazines "The 33 Greatest Movie Trilogies" in 2010.[6]
Ranked #14 in Empire magazines "The 100 Best Films Of World Cinema" in 2010.[7]
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