Three Colors: White (DVD)

The three colours trilogy is a series of three stories based on the French flag of Independence, Red, White and Blue. White is the second film in the trilogy and represents the ideal of Liberty. It is set between the first film red, and final film, blue. Througout the film snow filled fields, white marble court rooms and other symbols maintain the importance of white to this film. The film was created and directed by the awesome Polish Director, Krystof Kieslowski, the director of the masterpiece 'Dekalog' series, as well as films such as Camera Buff, No End and the Double Life of Veronique, by this time in his life, Kieslowski had moved from communist ...  Read the complete review

In this the second part of Krzysztof Kieslowski's trilogy based on France's national motto: ‘Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity’. White is the story of Karol Karol (Zbigniew Zamachowski), a hairdresser and Polish immigrant living in Paris with his wife, Dominique (Julie Delpy). As the film opens, Karol and Dominique are in divorce court; she wants the divorce, he doesn't. The divorce proceedings take place in a white marble courtyard. Dominique's grounds for divorce are that the marriage has never been consummated. She wins and, after the hearing, Dominique drives away in a white car. Almost immediately after the divorce, ...  Read the complete review