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4K Ultra HD Blu-ray

Three colors, white = Trois couleurs, blanc

Call Number

  • 4K BLU-RAY FOREIGN (CEN)

Edition

4K UHD + Blu-ray special edition.

Languages

In French and Polish, with English subtitles.

Performers

Zbigniew Zamachowski, Julie Delpy, Janusz Gajos, Jerzy Stuhr, Aleksander Bardini, Grzegorz Warchoł, Cezary Harasimowicz, Jerzy Nowak, Jerzy Trela, Cezary Pazura, Juliette Binoche, Florence Pernel.

Publication Information

[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2023]

Physical Description

1 videodisc (91 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

This boldly cinematic trio of stories about love and loss, from Krzysztof Kieślowski, was a defining event of the art-house boom of the 1990s. The films are named for the colors of the French flag and stand for the tenets of the French Revolution--liberty, equality, and fraternity--but that hardly begins to explain their enigmatic beauty and rich humanity. Set in Paris, Warsaw, and Geneva, and ranging from tragedy to comedy, Blue, White, and Red (Kieślowski's final film) examine with artistic clarity a group of ambiguously interconnected people experiencing profound personal disruptions. Marked by intoxicating cinematography and stirring performances by Juliette Binoche, Julie Delpy, Irène Jacob, and Jean-Louis Trintignant, Kieślowski's Three Colors is a benchmark of contemporary cinema.

The most playful and also the grittiest of Krzysztof Kieślowski's Three Colors films follows the adventures of Karol Karol, a Polish immigrant living in France. The hapless hairdresser opts to leave Paris for his native Warsaw when his wife sues him for divorce (her reason: their marriage was never consummated) and then frames him for arson after setting her own salon ablaze. White, which goes on to chronicle Karol's elaborate revenge plot, manages to be both a ticklish dark comedy about the economic inequalities of Eastern and Western Europe and a sublime reverie on twisted love.

Notes

This is a 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray and requires a 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray player; it will not play in standard Blu-ray or DVD players. For full 4K UHD effects, a 4K Ultra HD TV with HDR and a high-speed HDMI (category 2) cable are required.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1993.

Issued as part of the box set: Three colors (Blue, White, Red) by the Criterion Collection.

Special features: New 4K digital restoration, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack ; one 4K UHD disc presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with special features ; On White, a video essay by film critic Tony Rayns ; cinema lesson with director Krzysztof Kieślowski ; interview with actors Julie Delpy and Zbigniew Zamachowski ; interview with cowriter Krzysztof Piesiewicz ; The making of White, a behind-the-scenes program featuring Kieślowski ; two documentaries by Kieślowski--Seven Women of Different Ages (1978) and Talking Heads (1980) ; trailer.

Contents

  • [Disc one.] 4K Ultra HD version
  • [Disc two.] Blu-ray version.

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