Three Colors: Red (DVD)

At the conclusion of Three Colours Red (and thus of the whole Three Colours trilogy), we are reunited, after what must have been a radical series of coincidences, with the central characters of all three films, all somehow in the same place at the same time. This serendipitous turn of fate is a warm line with which to underscore a trio of stories about the difficulties of human relationships, and is especially appropriate given the particular theme of Red. Following both the colours of the French flag and the tenets of its motto, Blue focused on Liberty, White looked at Equality and Red completes the tricolore, concerning itself with Fraternity/Brotherhood. ...  Read the complete review

In this the third part of Krzysztof Kieslowski's trilogy based on France's national motto: ‘Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity’. Red is the story of the relationship of Valentine (Irene Jacob) a fashion model with an embittered former judge (Jean-Louis Trintignant), who secretly scans his neighbours' telephone conversations. Valentine is a young Swiss model and student living in Geneva. While missing her boyfriend, and waiting for his return from England, she comes across a cynical retired judge (Jean-Louis Trintignant) who leads a lonely, world-weary existence eavesdroping on his neighbours' telephone conversations. At first, ...  Read the complete review

The Three Colours trilogy, directed by Polish helmer Krzystof Kieslowski, is crafted as a loving ode to the French way of "life, love and liberty", with each film representing a colour of the French flag, and therefore one of the three aforementioned themes. A model, Valentine (Irène Jacob) is searching for her dog, and in this stead, stumbles across her neighbour, a retired judge, whilst he is listening in on phone conversations in the area. With its minimalist setting, this is very much an intimate character piece that examines how human interactions can evolve in a very short time. It also observes human behaviour as disparate in public and ...  Read the complete review

A wonderful film part of the Three colours Trilogy created by Polish director Krzystof Kieslowski to represent the three stripes of the French Flag. Three colours red, relates to a model (Jacob) who discovers whilst searching for her dog that her neighbour a retired judge is listening in on local conversations, the film deals with the french concept of fraternitty and relationships, we see the relationship between the model and judge develop, consider how others behave in private and public and are asked to look within ourselves, of the three this is possibly the weakest but it cleverly brings together the plotlines of white and blue near the end and the ...  Read the complete review