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| 80% Recommended by our customers. Studio: Miramax Catalog: DVD Release date: 2003-03-04 Media: DVD released in theatres: 1994-02-18 Running time in minutes: 219 DVD aspect ratio: 1.85:1 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Format: Anamorphic, Box set, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC DVD Region code: 1 released in theatres: 1994-02-18 Ean: 0786936216790 Upc: 786936216790  Tip: compare prices with similar DVDsDirector:
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 Written on September 20, 2005 Summary: Great collection If you're looking for a silly movie with no content, this is not a collection for you. The series is a great insight to a range of human emotions and finding your true self. I recommend it to anybody who loves good movies. Just beware. This set has english subtitles, so if you don't like that you can think twice before commiting to a purchase. Written on September 10, 2005 Summary: Beautiful and moving Simply my favorite foreign films. I understand this trilogy is assigned watching for college film students, and you'll see why after you watch. Three fine actresses and a wonderful theme - exploration of the meaning of the three colors in the French flag. Written on August 24, 2005 Summary: Extraordinary films The Three Colors trilogy was incredibly well done - at times serious and bleak, at others darkly funny and at others heartbreakingly emotional. The cinematography is outstanding and the acting superb. Written on April 10, 2005 Summary: most annoying parrotlike commentary I love these films. But the commentary by the Krieslowski expert is amazing in its way---never have i heard the obvious stated for over 2 hours running. In the movie Red, the commentator says such things as, "and here is Krieslowski showing the red car, note the red cherries, the red curtains, the red ad, the red light..." and so on. Some movie commentaries are worthless because the commentators barely say a word. This one is obsessed with stating the obvious, obvious themes, obvious sets, obvious emotions. Ugh. The worst use ever of the audio commentary. Written on March 22, 2005 Summary: Serious, Clever: I Wish I Liked Them Better BLUE: I checked out the DVD and watched it last night, took some notes, but decided to wait a day before posting my thoughts. I waited because I'm having a hard time dealing with this movie. On the one hand, I think it, technically, is a masterfully directed film that kept me watching. On the other hand, most movies so obviously dealing with loss as a major theme have never touched me strongly. I'm always aware that I'm watching a movie. And in this case, I had conflicted feelings about Julie. I understand someone feeling a personal loss so greatly that he or she simply wants to retreat from everything. But at least half or more of the movie was about this emotional retreat. I began to want to shake her and say, "Get on with your life." There comes a time when sadness can become simply self indulgent. I also had difficulty finding an emotional bond with her. Discarding her husband's last manuscript, described as "so beautiful," could be an act of emotional desolation, but it also is an act --within a movie -- of high vandalism. A person may be frightened of mice, in Julie's case more likely frightened of the sense of motherhood and dependence, but bringing a cat to kill and eat the mother mouse and her babies is an act of someone, however troubled, I wouldn't want to know. That she is distraught later helps me with her, but it doesn't do much for the mice. The movie is made up of so many sequences that, for me, don't build much resonance concerning Julie because, well, there are so many sequences. The emotionless love making with Olivier, the beggar with the flute, the situation with the prostitute in her apartment building, the young man bringing her the necklace, the old lady with the bottle, and so on. These and the other sequences are all masterfully done, but for me there are just too many of them dealing with Julie's frozen emotional state. Only when she begins to come out of it, when she invites her pregnant husband's mistress to the country house, helps the prostitute who sees her father in the audience, and then begins to help Olivier to finish the score...and agrees to jointly take credit with him and her husband, does the movie begin to pick up the pace. I know one can say that her emotional death is being shown by the slowness and ambiguity of the first two-thirds of the movie. Nonetheless, I think it was too much, at least for the story being told. However, for a movie being shown, it kept me watching. The use of brief blackouts to represent her emotional blackouts was absolutely masterful. I'd never seen it before. The ending, however, I felt was a little self conscious. Trying to bring all the people whom Julie had encountered, even briefly, into one big canvas to close the movie just seemed pushing it. On balance, as much as I liked much of the movie, I just couldn't escape the feeling every so often of, "Hey, look what Kieslowski's doing now." We all bring our own baggage to the movies we see and the books we read. These are comments from a person who has only seen the movie once, who can come close to crying if a dog is killed, but who sometimes gets impatient with a movie which deals with the emotional crises of intelligent and capable people. WHITE: I much prefer irony to tragedy, and after Blue I was not sure what to look forward to with White. I wound up liking White a lot. Movies about "the human condition" are, for me, almost invariably obvious. While this movie does quite a bit of exploring about how a man reacts to love and the withdrawing of love, impotence and the power of performance, revenge and a circling back to love, I thought it was handled with such off-hand, dead-pan humor as to be a very sweet film. In a way, it struck me as an amuse-bouche, one of those unexpected treats that a first-rate chef will surprise a good customer with at the start of a meal or sometimes in between courses. The movie has that quality of freshness and unexpectedness. Zbigniew Zamachowski does a masterful job as Karol, a sad sack if there ever was one, who gradually shows determination as well as obsession. I suppose one must just accept obsession as an unexplainable plot device in a movie, but Dominique got off to a very unsympathetic start. She'd wilt most men. Karol's obsession with her seemed a bit unreal. I found Karol developing into a resourceful, intelligent guy whom I began to admire. Dominique, though, didn't seem to change much. After all she put Karol through -- unnecessarily cruel most of the time -- I couldn't empathize much with Karol, but simply accepted things as the reason why I was enjoying the movie. I couldn't help thinking that if Karol had just had a few Viagra handy, none of his troubles would have begun. But then I thought about Dominique's essential characteristics, and I think that Karol would be better off with somebody new. I don't see a future for them. One of the things I liked a lot about this movie is that it kept me guessing. Was it going to be a romantic comedy, or a black comedy or some kind of excruciatingly dull exploration of sexual inadequacy? Was Karol really just a sad loser when he seemed sort of resourceful in a sad, funny way? What was he trying to do with his property purchase? Where did Dominque fit in or was this just a cameo with Delpy? Was something sad going to happen after I'd figured out it seemed to be a combination black/romantic comedy? I like a movie that I can't quite see the end to. People have said that this movie is the equality part of the trio. I saw this movie as a clever, bittersweet struggle for dominance, not equality, and laced with a little revenge. I thought it was a sweet, bittersweet, clever movie. |
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| Catalog | DVD | DVD | DVD | DVD | DVD | DVD |
| Release date | 2003-03-04 | 2006-11-21 | 2003-08-19 | 2003-07-01 | 2007-08-21 | 2006-02-07 |
| Media | DVD | DVD | DVD | DVD | DVD | DVD |
| released in theatres | 1994-02-18 | 1991-11-22 | 1988 | 1987 | 2006 | 1988-02-05 |
| Running time in minutes | 219 | 97 | 584 | 128 | 138 | 171 |
| DVD aspect ratio | 1.85:1 | 1.66:1 | 1.33:1 | 1.78:1 | 2.35:1 | 1.78:1 |
| Audience Rating | R (Restricted) | R (Restricted) | NR (Not Rated) | PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) | R (Restricted) | R (Restricted) |
| Format | Anamorphic, Box set, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC | Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC | Box set, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC | Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC | AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC | Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC |
| DVD Region code | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 99 | 1 |
| Ean | 0786936216790 | 0715515020725 | 9781565802742 | 9780792856160 | 0043396170858 | 9781419817144 |
| Book Isbn | - | - | 1565802748 | 0792856163 | - | 1419817140 |
| Upc | 786936216790 | 715515020725 | 736899031169 | 027616887450 | 043396170858 | 012569734043 |
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