Three Colours: Blue
Three Colours: Blue (French: Trois couleurs: Bleu, Polish: Trzy kolory: Niebieski) is a 1993 drama film directed and co-written by Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Kieślowski. It is the first of three films that make up the Three Colours trilogy, themed on the French Revolutionary ideals of liberty, equality and fraternity, followed by White and Red. According to Kieślowski, the subject of the film is liberty, specifically emotional liberty, rather than its social or political meaning.
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| French | Trois couleurs: Bleu |
| Directed by | Krzysztof Kieślowski |
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| Produced by | Marin Karmitz |
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| Cinematography | Sławomir Idziak |
| Edited by | Jacques Witta |
| Music by | Zbigniew Preisner |
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Running time | 94 minutes |
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| Language | French |
| Box office | $1.3 million (United States) |
Set in Paris, the film follows a woman whose husband and child are killed in a car accident. Suddenly freed from her familial bonds, she tries to isolate herself and live in seclusion from her former ties. However, she discovers that she cannot escape human connections.
Upon its release, Blue received critical acclaim and won several accolades, including the Golden Lion and the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival. It remains one of Kieślowski's most celebrated works. The male lead, Benoît Régent, suddenly died of an aneurism at the age of 41 in October 1994, just one year after this film was made.