Free Film - Trois Couleurs Rouge (Three Colours: Red) 1994 at GoMA South Bank

The Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA) has free movies, many of them international classics. On September 12 they will be showing the third movie in the French Three Colours Trilogy: Red. The movie is in French, with English subtitles. Description below.

The trilogy 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's movie theatre. Bring your own snacks as it is an art gallery not a movie theatre so there is no snack counter.

I will get there at 7:30 pm.

Movie Description

Krzysztof Kieślowski rounds out his 'Three Colours Trilogy' with mystery/drama/romance Red.

With its title colour evoking love, passion and danger, the film’s heroine is aptly named Valentine (Irène Jacob). A French model living in Geneva, she unexpectedly meets a lonely curmudgeon (Jean-Louis Trintignant) after she hits his dog with her car. The unnamed character is a retired judge, whose outward callousness belies loss, regret and an almost crippling empathy.

Fraternité – the ‘red’ of the French flag – translates as ‘brotherhood’, which can perhaps be better understood in this film as ‘togetherness’. Valentine and the judge’s strange friendship, and the parallel storyline of young judge Auguste (Jean-Pierre Lorit), suggest our interconnectedness in experiencing uncertain, misplaced and lost loves.