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Three Colours: White

Trois couleurs : Blanc

1994

Krzysztof Kieślowski

Zbigniew Zamachowski, Julie Delpy, Janusz Gajos, Jerzy Stuhr ...

7.2

15,495

Comedy. Drama Part two in Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowskis THREE COLOURS astounding trilogy, WHITE represents Equality (of Liberty and Fraternity) in the French flag and the French national motto. Karol (Zbigniew Zamachowski), a sweet but awkward Polish hairdresser, has just lost everything in a bitter divorce settlement--his cold-hearted French wife, Dominique (Julie Delpy) having taken their home, credit cards, and business. The poor Karol ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Lisa Nesselson Variety	"Involving, bittersweet and droll"	POS
United States	Desson Thomson The Washington Post	"A continuing testament to the Polish director's poetic mastery"	POS
United States	Lisa Schwarzbaum Entertainment Weekly	"There’s something earthy and elemental in this tale that was missing in Blue, something quirky and (measured by Kieslowskian standards) energetic"	POS
United States	Caryn James The New York Times	"A rich, light-handed marvel (...) 'White' is filled with exquisite scenes"	POS
United Kingdom	Derek Malcolm The Guardian	"[It] is less headily stylish than 'Blue' or 'Red' (...) But it feels somehow truer (...) It's almost perfect as far as it goes - a bleak but ultimately hopeful comedy"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"Kieslowski allows a great deal of apparent chance in his stories. They do not move from A to B, but wander dazedly through the lives of their characters. That lends a certain suspense (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Steve Beard Empire	"Kieslowski plays all this for laughs, and the anti-capitalist satire which fuels Karol's rake's progress remains the most satisfying part of the film (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Quentin Curtis The Independent	"The film's pleasures are less in intellectual insights than character studies. As Karol, Zamachowski gives an absorbing, downbeat performance"	POS

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