Kieślowski makes it feel like a dream, that is slowly fading away from memory.

| Oct 10, 2024

Juliette Binoche gives an intense yet sensitive performance as the survivor of a car crash that killed her family, who discovers that, no matter how great her pain, she doesn't have the freedom to give up life.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 6, 2024

Kieslowski and his usual co-writer, Krzysztof Piesiewicz, portray loneliness, emotional paralysis, and the devastation of the soul as has rarely been done in the history of cinema. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jul 5, 2024

Juliette Binoche as Julie, a bereaved heroine, nearly saves this existential rehash. With her somnambulistic stares and her ability to make silence a palpable experience, she gives a badly overwrought film some moments of real profundity.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 29, 2024

The saturated hues are calming, protective, but also isolating; the rest of the world fades away when she's enveloped in the blue of the water.

| Oct 28, 2023

The film is almost totally schematic and this weakens it. What strengthens it is the sheer emotional power of its making.

| Jun 22, 2023

Grand reminders of the little motions that gather slowly but surely, to deliver the quick, sudden turns that give even the most indolent life meaning.

| May 11, 2023

The score from Zbigniew Preisner is extraordinary, the opening motorway crash sequence is terrifying and the final close-up, as Julie is ultimately reconciled to her fate, is unutterably moving.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 30, 2023

Like delving into a cold cave of human emotion, Three Colours: Blue is the jewel in the crown of Kieślowski’s trilogy – a fascinating examination of freedom, sorrow and identity, and perhaps one of the most necessary films of contemporary French cinema.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 30, 2023

There is something so rich and spacious and unhurried here. There is a wonderful reach and flair in Kieślowski’s film-making.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 30, 2023

The first film in the trilogy remains my favorite.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 26, 2023

Its own color palette, accompanied by Zbigniew Preisner’s haunting score...

| Feb 13, 2023

“Blue” is the rarest of all films, a film that reveals its knowledge on humanity through melodic rhythm and artistic imagery. It should be regarded as one of the most insightful and inventive films ever made.

| Dec 11, 2022

Blue is by far the most revelatory, offering a transcendent showcase for Juliette Binoche...

| Sep 7, 2022

Blue is the most complete picture in the trilogy in terms of both its metaphorical pronouncements and the visual aesthetic that Kieslowski defines them with.

| Sep 6, 2022

It’s an intimate meditation centered by a bold, piercing performance from Binoche who speaks little but tells much through her revealing outward expression.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 25, 2022

A devastating look at freeing oneself from grief.

| Jul 27, 2020

Blue is a definite great start to the trilogy!

| Original Score: 8/10 | Apr 26, 2020

Kieslowski crafts a tone poem about the beauty of grief, and how Julie's submission to the crystal-clear sorrow of her emotions leads her on a deeply moving process of rebirth

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 1, 2019

The film is lifted by the force and inventiveness of its images, while Binoche holds the centre with her sad, enigmatic presence.

| Nov 28, 2017