Short Cuts (1993)

Three Colours Blue - review

Derek Malcolm's review of the first in the Three Colours trilogy, originally published on 14 Oct 1993 Krzysztof Kieslowski , Europe's most highly-praised working director, beavered away for 15 years without much recognition and now gets prizes thrown at him like confetti. He won a share of Venice's Golden Lion (with Altman's forthcoming Short Cuts ) for Three Colours Blue, the first of a new trilogy exploring the present meaning of the French Revolution's liberty, equality and fraternity. And, without doubt, he has made another brilliantly fashioned tale to put beside the Decalogue and The Double Life Of Veronique .Yet there is something missing from his first entirely French production which was also missing from the last (French) half of Veronique. It may simply be that he is no longer working in the communist and post-communist world that his often pessimistic ironies illustrate with such emotional and psychological certainty. It may also be that
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