Friday, 1 November 2013

Three colours: Bland

Three Colours: White (1994)

Directed by Krzysztof Kieslowski this second part of a trilogy stars Zbigniew Zamachowski and Julie Delphy. A Polish man is divorced by his French wife and returns home to Poland pennyless.

The plot of this film is supposed to work as a political allegory for the experience of Poland integrating into the EU and struggling to catch up economically but I do not think it works as well as a film like The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979). On the superficial level the story is fairly entertaining, if a little ambiguous at times but otherwise is nothing special. While the direction hints at similar use of colour to the first film in the trilogy it is not as striking or impressive as the first film.


3/5

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