“TROIS COULEURS: BLEU” 1993 | 1h38 [FR\PL\CH] | LITC XIII Cinema Scrngs

## Ciclo LUZES NA CAVERNA XIII | ”A imagem como suspensão da memória.”:

[Lights in the Cave XIII Cinema Screenings: “The Image as the Suspension of Memory.”]

#### “TROIS COULEURS: BLEU” 1993 | M/12 | 1h38 [FR\PL\CH] (Three Colours: Blue - ENG)

By Krzysztof Kieślowski

Sábado Dia 18/07 às 19h30 [Saturday 07/18 at 7:30pm]
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In Trois Couleurs: Bleu, Krzysztof Kieślowski captures that fragile interval between loss and renewal. Every silence, every musical fragment, every vibration of blue seems to suspend time itself, revealing that some images endure long after words have fallen away.

After suddenly losing her husband and daughter in a car accident, Julie decides to sever all ties with the life she once knew. She sells her house, withdraws from those she loves, destroys her late husband's unfinished musical score, and seeks to disappear into an anonymous existence, believing that freedom might lie in depending on no one. Yet some memories do not remain confined to consciousness. They inhabit gestures, bodies, music, light, and the smallest fragments of everyday life, returning just when we believe we have finally left them behind.
Directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski, Trois Couleurs: Bleu is one of the defining achievements of contemporary European cinema. The first chapter of the celebrated trilogy inspired by the ideals of the French Revolution, the film transforms the experience of grief into a deeply sensorial meditation on freedom, memory and the possibility of beginning again. Juliette Binoche's extraordinary performance, the unforgettable score by Zbigniew Preisner, and Kieślowski's masterful use of the colour blue combine to create a work in which every silence seems to speak more eloquently than words.

Presented as part of CONVERSAS COM CINEMA© and the thirteenth edition of LUZES NA CAVERNA, we invite audiences to join an open discussion after the screening around the theme "The Image as the Suspension of Memory." In Trois Couleurs: Bleu, the image ceases to function merely as a representation of the past and becomes the very place where memory is held in suspension, between what has vanished and what continues to exist in silence. Kieślowski's cinema does not seek to explain grief or offer a path beyond it. Instead, it invites us to dwell within that fragile interval where time slows, emotions acquire a tangible form, and we begin to realise that forgetting may never truly mean erasing. Some images do more than preserve memory: they become the very means through which we continue to live with what we have lost.
‍ ‍Following the screening, we invite you to join an open discussion around the theme "The Image as the Suspension of Memory."
We live in a time that constantly urges us to move on: to overcome, to replace, to forget. Yet human experience rarely follows such a logic. Some losses never truly disappear, because they quietly become part of the very fabric of who we are.

In “Trois Couleurs: Bleu”, Krzysztof Kieślowski suggests that cinema can make this invisible dimension of existence perceptible. Not through psychological explanation or easy emotion, but through the subtle interplay of light, music, silence and time. When the image ceases merely to illustrate events and begins to embrace what cannot be fully expressed, it becomes a place of endurance.
Perhaps this is one of the most discreet forms of freedom that cinema can offer us: not freedom from memory, but the possibility of continuing to live without renouncing what memory has given us.

(Curatorship by Alexandre Braga)

All Cinema PROSA films will be shown on an illuminated pixel (65’’ QLED screen) in a room with a maximum capacity of 24 spectators.

Come and have a glass of wine or a non-alcoholic drink in the cinema room with us!