Three Colors: Red
1994 ‘Trois couleurs: Rouge’ Directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski
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Red This is the third film from the trilogy by Kieślowski. “Red” meaning brotherliness. Here Kieślowski masterly tells strange coincidentally linked stories in the most packed work.
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Well... thing is. Couldn't sleep last night. Or, rather - couldn't sleep til morning. Age, mayhap? Woke up at 3:30, started worrying about this week. This rarely happens at all, I usually can sleep anytime, anyplace. This time however I was immediately wide awake, tossing and turning. Gave up after 30 minutes and got out of bed. At this moment I had probably already started thinking about watching a movie, because I walked straight into the home theater. Funny thing was that I had no trouble at all picking a movie. I grabbed the Three Colors Criterion Blu-ray from the shelf, ripped off the plastic and pulled Red from the box set. I had only seen it once before and…
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Krzysztof Kieslowski closes his remarkable Three Colors trilogy with Red, which is the most thematically strong of the three and also happened to be the final film of his career. Whereas Blue was an anti-tragedy and White was an anti-comedy, Red presents itself almost as an anti-romance, as the loners Valentine and "The Judge" cross paths and find a strange connection with one another.
Red is about where you could have been if you were older or younger. It is about whether or not there is someone completely perfect for everyone, and whether or not one person can change your life. The final chapter in one of the most awe-inspiring trilogies ever made, this film breaks barriers in both directing…
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In a way, I'm quite sad that I rewatched Three Colours: Red last night because as a result of this viewing I have bumped it out of my favourite films of all time.
Not because I've discovered that it's a load of rubbish or anything. Far from it, obviously. It just shows the danger of saying something is one of your favourites based on just one viewing made over 15 years ago. After all, all the other films I'd have in my top 10 are films that I have seen time and time again and I am completely comfortable with my opinions of them.
I would watch Three Colours: Red again, but it's perhaps not necessarily the kind of film…
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I no longer have an easy decision on which is my favorite from the series. Blue or Red. It's Pokemon all over again. Red might not be the best film in the trilogy, but it is the best colour. Red contrasts so well with the nighttime aesthetic, reflections, neon, vibrant, violent impressions. Magical, mystical, enchanting. Irene Jacob is suffering from lust, oneitis i believe is the medical term, as is everybody else, with different people, with each other, nobody knows anymore and nobody has the answers. I wish that more POV stuff could have been done, but it is rather abstract and i know full well that keeping it to a minimal was for the best. Red provokes a series…
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The way Kieslowski woves the lifes of others together are amazing. I like the philosofic idea of it, that we all are connected, one way or another. He beautifully explores theese themes in "The Double Life of Veronique" and "Rouge".
Once again I have to pay me deepest respect for how Kieslowski creates an atmosphere, not only in scenes in general but within the characters as well. The mood set for the film is just amazing. Sweet, melancholic, actually a bit mystic (even though I don't agree with IMDb calling it a "mystery"-film), poetic, romantic and slightly humorous.
It's been one awsome day of film, no doubt about it. A trilogy that deserves all the attention it gets (and that's still not enough).
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Krzysztof Kieslowski closes his remarkable Three Colors trilogy with Red, which is the most thematically strong of the three and also happened to be the final film of his career. Whereas Blue was an anti-tragedy and White was an anti-comedy, Red presents itself almost as an anti-romance, as the loners Valentine (Irene Jacob) and "The Judge" (Jean-Louis Trintignant) cross paths and find a strange connection with one another. Both of these people have become isolated from most of the world. Valentine is a model and finds herself constantly on display through billboards and stage shows, but she is in a relationship with a possessive man that exists only via telephone and she has retreated away from her family which so…
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"Deciding what is true and what isn't seems to me a lack of modesty; vanity."
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I defy even the most hard-boiled fan of international cinema to not delight in the image of Jean-Louis Trintignant cuddling a puppy. That is, of course, not to say that such puppy love is the only pleasure offered by this film. It's an expressive masterpiece both on its own terms and as the culmination of the Three Colors trilogy.
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Each entry is fantastic, but Kieslowski's "Red" is the masterpiece of the colors trilogy, sublime and eternally flawless.
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i don't really get kiewslowski; i watched this film and ended up just feeling a bit stupid really like i did with the double life of veronique. irene jacob is excellent as a compassionate and timid young french model who is led by a twist of fate into meeting a retired judge obsessed with listening in to other peoples lives. i sort of liked their relationship of lonely opposites, one into interfering for good the other for watching as the world goes by, which was quite understated and sweet but all the symbolism with the person who she keeps missing, the phones and the dogs and the broken glass and the ending went way over my head which made it hard for me to connect with the core as i was so distracted trying to make head or tail of it.
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Una maravilla dramática que al parecer es compleja pero expresa un sentimiento de sencillez único que me gustó mucho, buen montaje, diálogos e historia. Krzysztof Kieslowski como realizador lo hace de nuevo. Las tres películas que componen “Trois couleurs” son admirables y muy especiales, dejan muy bien parado al cine francés en general al comienzo de la década de los 90. Irène Jacob Interpreta un personaje que me encantó, es sumamente inocente, correcta y astuta; llena de muchos sentimientos. De nuevo quedo maravillado con la actriz, me encantó su perfil. Hay que reconocer que las tres protagonistas femeninas de cada uno de los films tiene su toque especial y aportan muchísimo. Es reconfortante ver de nuevo a Jean-Louis Trintignant el cual anteriormente vi en “Amour”, es muy buen actor. Kieslowski es un gran realizador y con este grupo de actores e historias logra un ejemplo al cine increíble. Como trilogía reconozco que me gustaron mucho. 8.5/10.
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I love it.
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I don't think this is Kieslowski's best film (that would be Decalogue 6), but it does feel like his most artistically complete film. There's something interesting going on in practically every shot, and often more than one interesting thing. I have no idea what the final shot is meant to signify, beyond the obvious (which is fitting, since I have no idea what the final shot of The Double Life of Veronique is meant to signify, either), which annoys me just a little. Otherwise, it's a rich, heady film that manages to be blithely romantic without actually showing any romance whatsoever. It also feels eerily appropriate as an auteur's swan song. I'm kind of glad he made no other movies after this.
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Powerful film. My personal favorite of the Three Colors Trilogy. Beyond resonating with me personally the most, this film was the most impressive visually as well. The characters were strong and the themes were well woven in. I couldn't ask for a more fitting end to the trilogy.
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A mysterious and affecting close to Kieslowski's monumental trilogy, Red traces the burgeoning friendship between a retired judge and a youthful model. Expertly paced, touchingly scored, and surprisingly written, the film manages to deliver a portrait of a friendship that has no business existing--and yet it does. There's an underlying joie de vivre that gives the film and the trilogy a hopeful tone. One might think of Red as something of a modern take on the old Beauty and the Beast fable.