Three Colours White
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Sun 14 March 2004 // 20:00
Three Colours White
(Krzysztof Kieslowski/1994/91min 57s/15)
(Sunday 14th/8pm/£3/£4)
Staring Julie Delpy and Zbigniew Zamachowski, Three Colours White is the second of Kieslowski's masterly trilogy deconstructing the colours of the French flag: Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity. White is the story of the Polish hairdresser (a mournful Zamachoski) savagely rejected by his wilfully unpredictable French wife (Delpy). Without a zloty to call his own, he's forced to return to Warsaw smuggled in a suitcase - which is then stolen by gangsters, who take their disappointment at finding a man instead of valuables out on him.
Kieslowski's film is one of the great film comedies. Sure, it's the light relief of the Three Colours trilogy, but its sharp observations about human nature are every bit as telling. Transcendent modern cinema.
Next month the Cube will be screening Red, the final installment of the trilogy, and thus bringing to a close one of cinema's greatest achievements.
(Krzysztof Kieslowski/1994/91min 57s/15)
(Sunday 14th/8pm/£3/£4)
Staring Julie Delpy and Zbigniew Zamachowski, Three Colours White is the second of Kieslowski's masterly trilogy deconstructing the colours of the French flag: Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity. White is the story of the Polish hairdresser (a mournful Zamachoski) savagely rejected by his wilfully unpredictable French wife (Delpy). Without a zloty to call his own, he's forced to return to Warsaw smuggled in a suitcase - which is then stolen by gangsters, who take their disappointment at finding a man instead of valuables out on him.
Kieslowski's film is one of the great film comedies. Sure, it's the light relief of the Three Colours trilogy, but its sharp observations about human nature are every bit as telling. Transcendent modern cinema.
Next month the Cube will be screening Red, the final installment of the trilogy, and thus bringing to a close one of cinema's greatest achievements.