Kieslowski was true poetic filmmaker, a visual storyteller, one who believed in the intelligence of the audience. His three colors trilogy came at a point in his career when he was absolutely at the height of his powers. He had just made Dekalog and The Double Life of Veronique before and the three colors trilogy would be his last great works. The trilogy begins with blue, a story of a women who suffers a great tragedy and her grieving process. The film begins with an accident ,in which her famous composer husband and young daughter are killed in a car crash ,that she survives. The way in which she deals with her grief is unexpected and very sad. At first she thinks about taking her own life but can't go through with it, then she decides to try to erase all things and people that remind her of them. She attempts to liberate herself from her past but this turns out to be difficult, the unfinished song of her husband is always playing in her head, haunting her. She is also meets with a boy who witnessed the crash, meets a mistress of her husband and has a relationship with her husbands best friend. This is the type of film that takes you inside the mind of a character. She attempts to shut out the world and just exist but as she heals and realizes how important connections with people are, she grows and the ending is beautiful and hopeful. The movie is beautiful image after beautiful image and Juliette binoche's performance is one of the best I've ever seen, she's so understated, she says a lot with her face without speaking a word. Binoche somehow is able to convey several emotions with one look, she's really incredible. The movie is covered in the color blue, as you expect, the cinematography is beautiful as in all of Kieslowski's work, each film in the trilogy is shot by a different cinematographer and has a different look like the dekalog. What impresses me most about about Kieslowski's work is the way his story's unfold so unpredictable and also his camera placement,Their is so many impressive shots in this movie. Few directors instantly involve you in a story like Kieslowski, he drops you right in and where he takes you is always interesting, complex ,unexpected, and very rewatch able. You could watch blue again and again and pick up on new things each time. Blue is a excellent film and I highly recommend it and really all of Kieslowski's work is great, he was truly a great artist.

This film is about the most raw of emotions, grief from great loss. In an opening scene, the brakes go out on a car, ridden in by Juiette Binoche, the result of which is the loss of her composer husband and her young daughter. We now focus on her attempted recovery which begins with a suicide attempt. Once out of the hospital, she wallows in grief. She obviously has the funds to go on which allows her to drop out of her previous world. Her husband had been respected all over the world for his work, but it is implied that she had as much to do with the work as he did. One of her husband's associates (who has loved her and sleeps with her one evening) wants to finish the master's final composition. She destroyed a copy earlier, but it resurfaced as a copy in his desk at his workplace. As she tries to get direction, she finds out deep secrets that were kept. She has a relationship with an exotic dancer in a sex club. There are rather obvious scenes of her swimming alone, going into the depths of the water and coming out. This is quite an intense, but superbly quiet film.

For cinema lovers this is an incredible movie , Juliette Binoche plays one of the best roles in her lifetime i think. The movie is great, and watching it many times is a must to understand all the hints of the Great director Kieslowski. Amazing picture , every cadre in the scene is beautiful well thought off and very meaningful.Even though this movie is within the frame of a three-movies series , i personally happen to admire this one the most . However , the other three , three colors white and red are also incredible movies. They are almost at the same high point of being interesting. Simply i believe anything of Kieslowski the director is great , he's an amazing talent that one must follow and apprehend.

Though interestingly filmed, in that Kieslowski way, this film is disappointingly predictable and shallow in its layering, and in the exposition, such as it is, of its supposed theme of "liberty." And how are we to imagine that the composer of such superficial and badly composed music was famous? A failed attempt to imitate some sombre late 19th- or early 20th-century style? But it is much too banal for that, and perhaps some sort of monumental-sounding minimalist approach was intended. A film in which a composer and his (?) music figures prominently must make a better attempt to provide a convincing score. Binoche's portrayal of emotional deadness was not convincing, either. "The Decalogue" is a much greater work.