As part of my personal Corona Film Festival, I watched the trilogy Blue, White, Red: Three Colours.
These magnificent stories of love are in French, mostly set in France. The second movie is set more in Poland and with more Polish than French, but begins in France. They have the same Polish director, Krzysztof Kieślowski, and were released in consecutive years in the mid-90s. In each of the the three movies, the story is most clear in the face of the star--the three faces you see in the poster above.
The camera lingers on the faces of Juliette Binoche, Zbigniew Zamachowski, Irene Jacob in each of the three movies. Each deals with love and loss in ways that surprised me--especially in the second movie, White.
I watched them in order of release but they could be watched separately in any order. The lead characters express so much with their faces that I am going to watch at least parts of the movies again without subtitles, just to see how much I can understand. I was surprised as I watched White that I was picking up words and phrases in Polish. I don't know Polish, but it is a Slavic language and when spoken slowly, the sounds of some common words is very like Russian.
