Free Film - Trois Couleurs Bleu (Three Colours: Blue) 1993 at GoMA South Bank

The Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA) has free movies, many of them international classics. On September 10 they will be showing the first in the famous French Three Colours Trilogy: Blue. The movie is in French with English subtitles. Description below.

White and Red are on Friday. Yes, it is based on the 3 colours of the French flag and the focus on the 3 principles of the French revolution liberty, equality & fraternity.

The movie starts at 8 pm at the gallery. Bring your own snacks as it is an art gallery not a movie theatre.

I will get there at 7:30 pm.

Movie Description

The first film in Kieślowski’s striking trilogy, this haunting reflection on loss, grief and freedom is carried by Juliette Binoche’s spell-binding performance as Julie.

Navigating her way through the tragic loss of her famous composer husband and their young daughter, Julie pursues a new, independent life beyond his legacy. Blue - the colour of liberty in the French flag - paints grief, trauma and memory in the film. Cinematographer Slawomir Idziak exquisitely employs the hue in Julie’s post-traumatic reality: refracted through a crystal chandelier, illuminating a swimming pool and permeating the cold light of predawn.

Interwoven with the titular colour is the music, composed by Zbigniew Preisner. Dramatic orchestral interludes aurally skewer scenes as Julie makes decisions and realisations about both the past life she is trying to erase and the new one she is forging. Inevitably drawn back to her husband’s unfinished concerto, the elements of colour and sound enmesh in a cinematic experience of chromesthesia, where the score becomes the sound of blue.