It is a warning of what may come if we isolate ourselves from others and cut off communication.

| Oct 10, 2024

The film's use of colour and sound is unparalleled in 1990s cinema, while the intricate plot linking model Jacob with snooping judge Jean-Louis Trintignant is spellbinding.

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

... the rich red color scheme brings a vibrancy to the scenes: it's the color of love, anger, passion, heat, and it warms this into becoming the most forgiving film in the series.

| Oct 28, 2023

Three Colors remains an unshakable entry in cinema...

| May 11, 2023

It is an almost supernatural contrivance: brooding on coincidence, fate and the insoluble mystery of other people’s lives...

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 11, 2023

Three Colours: Red is the trilogy’s anti-romance, depicting an unconventional love story blossoming against the insurmountable obstacle of age -- perhaps the most adventurous and personal of the trilogy.

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

If Blue was steeped in melancholy and White appeared frosty in tone, Red positively vibrates with a ruddy passion.

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

...connected with the French themes of liberty, equality, and fraternity and touch on different subjects...

| Feb 13, 2023

...the film’s most impressive feat is its metaphysical connection with the medium itself, the cinema, which is also about coming together and sharing experiences.

| Nov 24, 2022

As ever, life’s mysteries are affirmed, fate often inexplicable even if morality remains (fairly) fixed.

| Sep 7, 2022

Red is the most symbolic of the three films as well, it is rich in the narrative connection and details between characters that attempt to tie all the narrative threads of the trilogy together.

| Sep 6, 2022

“Red” features a fairly straightforward story but with a sense of mystery and wonderment. There is also a surprising amount of warmth that we don’t see in the other movies.

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

It is the most curious of the trilogy, the most penetrating, asking questions it may not provide answers to.

| Jul 27, 2020

The reason it is better than Blue is because the plot is more linear and engaging and Valentine is a more complex character

| Original Score: 9/10 | Apr 26, 2020

It transcends the formula of its scenario to become something altogether more powerful and resonant.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 12, 2018

Kieślowski functions as a sardonic god who plucks his characters from harm at the last moment, having already bestowed saving grace on them. There's something desperate and beautiful about the crossed paths and accidental meetings.

| Apr 10, 2018

Is it profound or is it facile? When a movie gives you goose bumps, it may not matter.

| Feb 21, 2018

For all its cleverness, remains in essence the story of a friendship which, across the generations, leaves both parties a little easier with themselves but still prey to fate.

| Feb 17, 2016

No better swan song to such a rich, weighty career has yet been filmed.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Sep 8, 2013

[Kieślowski's] microcosmic scrutiny of the world, sans judgment, suggests all things happen at once.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 12, 2012