Kieslowski

This segment starts with a lie. Anka is examining the shards of glass in the door that Michal shattered and he says, while changing his shirt, “it was a draft.” She gives a bemused “hmm,” sits down and asks if he has a cigarette. He lights one for her and

We now reach the turning point of “Blue,” a collection of four scenes where Julie’s journey toward individualism and freedom meets various forms of resistance. It begins with her swimming alone in a stunning blue pool. Julie is again in that womb-like state, free in her exercise and meditation.

This is my second attempt to write this essay. I completed a version of it and I thought I’d published it. But when I went to retrieve the URL so I could cross post it to Authory, it wasn’t in my list of posts. I found it in

The last scene ends with Julie in a state of deep meditation. She’s faintly hearing the symphony in her head, a string section, but isn’t fighting it. She’s letting it guide her calmly into slumber. It’s impossible for me to convey the beauty of the scene,

“Three Colors: Blue” is a personal story, but it’s also possible to extrapolate it to a global, humanitarian story. Kieslowski conceived his trilogy as an homage to his new home country of France, but told through the prism of a reunited Europe. The freedom highlighted in the movie isn’

It’s always valuable to bear in mind what Kieslowski had to say about all of the main characters in The Dekalog — they don’t know why they are living. They don’t begin episodes in despair. In most cases, there’s no imminent crisis in their lives. But they