Three Colours: Red

It’s universally acknowledged as a great film ending, but there are some strange elements in the conclusion to “Three Colours: Red” that need to be addressed upfront before I describe it. The first is that it works even if you haven’t seen any Kieslowski film before — including the

This is the heart of the movie and perhaps the entire “Three Colours” trilogy. Joseph and Valentine are still talking inside the theater where the fashion show took place. He says that he used to come to this theater often and sat in the loge section, where he was for

As mentioned at the end of the last segment, there are only three segments of “Red” to go … and in this one, not a whole lot happens. Which makes it a good spot to take a breath and discuss the actor who plays Joseph, Jean-Louis Trintignant. Before he passed away

This section of the film is all about the man in the red Jeep, aka the young judge, and as we will soon discover, Auguste. It’s funny how Kieslowski withholds the names of characters for so long at times. It makes things especially difficult for me because I have

As we pick up the scene, Valentine is talking about her family. She begins saying that her mother, who we will later hear lives in France, now lives alone, so she asked her brother to go see her, but he stayed only three days. Then she talks about her own

In the Kieslowski moral universe, influence is often transferred indirectly, not as an intentional act. When we act upon influence, we aren’t even aware that we are doing so much of the time. This plays with questions of motives. How can we assign a motive and judge it right