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Overview

User Rating:
7.9/10   21,164 votes
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Writers:
Krzysztof Kieslowski (scenario) and
Krzysztof Piesiewicz (scenario) ...
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Contact:
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Release Date:
8 September 1993 (France) more
Genre:
Drama more
Plot:
First of a trilogy of films dealing with contemporary French society concerns how the wife of a composer deals with the death of her husband and child. full summary | add synopsis
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Awards:
Nominated for 3 Golden Globes. Another 13 wins & 7 nominations more
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"Mistresses" at the TCA Press Tour
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User Comments:
Do we like her? Do we feel anything? more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Juliette Binoche ... Julie Vignon (de Courcy)
Benoît Régent ... Olivier (as Benoit Regent)
Florence Pernel ... Sandrine
Charlotte Véry ... Lucille (as Charlotte Very)
Hélène Vincent ... La journaliste (as Helene Vincent)
Philippe Volter ... L'agent immobilier
Claude Duneton ... Le médecin
Hugues Quester ... Patrice
Emmanuelle Riva ... La mère
Florence Vignon ... La copiste
Daniel Martin ... Le voisin du dessous
Jacek Ostaszewski ... Le flutiste
Catherine Therouenne ... La voisine
Yann Trégouët ... Antoine (as Yann Tregouet)
Alain Ollivier ... L'avocat
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Three Colors: Blue (Canada: English title) (USA)
Three Colours: Blue (Canada: English title) (UK)
Bleu (France) (short title)
Blue
Trzy kolory: Niebieski (Poland)
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MPAA:
Rated R for some sexuality.
Runtime:
98 min
Colour:
Colour (Eastmancolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby SR
Company:
Canal+ more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Zbigniew Zamachowski and Julie Delpy, the stars of Kieslowski's Trzy kolory: Bialy (1994), make appearances in this film. more
Goofs:
Factual errors: The speech given at the funeral states Julie's daughter's age as 5, but the dates on the coffin (26/04/1985 - 07/09/1992) would make her 7 years old. more
Quotes:
Julie Vignon: Why are you crying?
La servante: Because you're not.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in Wielkie rzeczy: Gra (2000) (TV) more

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53 out of 93 people found the following comment useful:-
Do we like her? Do we feel anything?, 11 August 2004
7/10
Author: kintopf432 (kintopf432@hotmail.com) from St. Paul, MN

Something of a model of directorial focus and control, 'Bleu' seems to be an attempt to answer several related questions: How can a filmmaker express the feelings for someone who won't, or can't, express them herself? Can the director make the viewer understand her, like her, share her feelings? Krzysztof Kieslowski comes very close, finding ingenious, even brilliant ways to get inside the head of his deliberately impenetrable Julie. The frequent 'blackouts,' coupled with the throbbing, somber score (inspired, it seems, at least in part, by Mozart's 'Requiem'), gives us a window into the character's inner life, lets us hear, rather than see, the humanity behind her aloof façade. We understand her--but do we like her? How easy it would be for Julie to become totally unlikable--the way Juliette Binoche plays her, she is blank to the point of coldness, sometimes in ways reminiscent of Catherine Deneuve's Carole in "Repulsion," only with a taut intelligence that character certainly lacks. Somehow, she never does; but, for all the actress's control, the characterization is ultimately Kieslowski's creation, not hers. It's the directorial techniques, and not the acting, that allow us to care about Julie. So, do we ever share her feelings? No, despite all Kieslowski's tricks, we really can't. So often, Americans wrongly write off European films as 'cold,' and that's why it's surprising that this movie, which directly tackles the question of emotional frigidity, and which has such a passionate following among cinephiles, should turn out never to make us feel really anything. Oh, the film has an undeniable emotionalism, a potency, just beneath the surface, yes. But it's never willing to go the extra step and manipulate the viewer in an outright way. It's too respectful of its audience, too intelligent, too careful, for that. And this studied, uncompromising unsentimentality in itself is an achievement Kieslowski should be commended for, but some may find it makes 'Bleu' into a portrait of grief to be admired, rather than loved. 7 out of 10.

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