Date Reviewed: 2020-04-28
Release Year: 1993
Also released in 1993, this is the first of a trilogy of 3 that my roommate in college told me to watch back in 1999 I think. I had always meant to follow up on this and finally have. I like to watch movies like this without much knowledge of what is coming to see what I can soak up without outside interpretations. This unfortunately means I miss a lot of the deeper implications on first watch. To me this was a glacial emotional examination of a woman's coming to terms with the car accident related death of her husband, a fellow musician, and her young daughter.
The obvious cue from the title is color helped even a moron like me realize when moments were of significance, with weird melty light work and hazy dappled blue light all over the movie. Juliette Binoche is beautiful and terse and tries to dislocate from her prior life, but it keeps finding a way to creep back to her.
The backdrop was France and makes me want to walk the windy streets of Paris which I have not been to since 1996.
The rest of the trilogy should prove to be fantastic after seeing this first one.
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