I can't help feeling there should be a colon in there somewhere. After all you can't have three colours if it's just blue. Shades of blue perhaps. Well maybe you can then. Either way being as this is from the Three Colours trilogy I think to think of it as Three Colours Trilogy: Episode 1 - Blue. But anyway enough prattle. Let's get down to business.

You can tell from the opening stages of the film that it's going to be something a bit artsy and clever with it having things like a close up of an eye with somebody reflected in it. Its artsy objective is to portray the meaning behind the colours of the French flag. As you might have already guessed, the director is of course Polish. In case you don't know here's what the colours actually represent: Blue - Liberty, White - Equality, Red - Fraternity (this part is a typical college stoner movie. Probably.). This films Liberty comes from the lead character's liberation from her old life through a traic car accident, then from the despair and withdrawl from life. She is ultimately free to live again.

Funny how one of the more serious and meaningful movies I've reviewed on here has the most easy to sum up plot. Still anyway, it's all the better for its clever artsy cinematography (ooh get you mr clever film reviewer with your fancy words - Joe the Plumber). It has a deliberately slow pace making it feel what I would describe as ambient. It's a film you experience much in the same way as you do with more ambient music. It happens around you rather than you being an observer of things. You feel the film. Scenes seem to blend into each other at a gradual pace. A stillness that few have dared to try. Many scene is played out without dialogue but yet you still sense the meaning and emotion behind it just as you would a grand symphony (I'm dead cunning in my use of that you'll notice if you watch the film. I'm ace me).

It's obviously not going to appeal to everyone as it is very slow but then if you're exclusively interested in action films there's no way you'd ever consider watching it so that doesn't matter. If you've any brain at all then you'll love Juliet Binoche's incredible portrayal of a woman in a very... (what's the word.. disconnected? that'll do...) disconnected state of mind through grief. I feel it necessary to point out how dedicated she must have been to the film as there's a scene where she scrapes her hand along a wall, scraping some of the skin from her knuckles.

This is to my mind the best part of the trilogy and ideal for watching late at night in a darkened room by yourself. It's the best way to experienceth feelings of cold isolation.

There's many other things I could have pointed out here but it's not necessary. All you need to know is that you need to see this film so buy it now.

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