The Three Colours Series

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I just watched Three Colours Red on World Movies again. I love this movie, as well as the other two Blue and White. Anyone else love this series and if so, which is your favourite? Red is probably mine followed by White then Blue.
Very good books, even better movies. I think Blue was the best, the first in the series and un-beatable.

Extremely good movies. As usual, ignored completely by the academy.
 

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Watched Blue and White and have Red on DVD to watch today.

Blue - One of the best films that shows the internal life of a character, and love the use of music. Type of film that makes disappointed that the Americans have all the money to make their rubbish.

White - Quite a let down, I felt Kieslowski didn't quite structure this film right. Half of it was about becoming a business man, which to me wasnt as intriguing as the internal conflicts that Juliette Binoche had in blue, then the setting up his wife was a bit strange. I did like the style of the film, as with all Kieslowski, but if you arent totally engaged with the story/character it can seem a bit boring.

100% admire the way filmmakers like Kieslowski treat the audience as intelligently and maturely as they do, similar to Lynch or Kubrick.

Heard the best of the series is Red, and can't wait to watch it.
 

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TROIS COULEURS ROUGE is my all-time favourite film, it blew me away when I first saw it in Sydney and still has the same effect on me now. It's the best film I've seen about relationships, friendships and love. Just an absolute masterpiece.

My fiancee (now wife) and I went and saw each of them in the cinema's when they were released in 1993/94. Loved them all, but especially RED, which we saw once a week for it's 10 week run in Canberra.
 

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Americans hate to admit others can do things a lot better than they can.
Exactly. And yet it is obvious, there are so many good directors and actors coming from Europe Asia and abroad, yet Hollywood continues to spew out the same tripe, some story about a dead girl coming back from the dead or some sappy rubbish.
 

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On the american thing, Americans are their primary audience, and have been cultured by American films, so they will continue to make commercial, obvious drivel 95% of the time. Think about some of the great American directors, and films they rarely make a profit, while in Europe and Asia the great directors and films are considered mainstream and are recognised. Forgot what my point was.

On Red, it was my favourite out of the 3. Loved the characters of the judge and Valentine.

I don't think I'm one of those people that have three colours triology in their top film lists, but the analysis of human behaviour and the style in which theyre expressed really respect the audience and challenge them in a rare way.

On a different tangent, can a film like the three colours films, be made by an Australian? Would it ever get funding, and would an Australian audience understand it?
 

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Extremely good movies. As usual, ignored completely by the academy.
It wasn't completely ignored, it was nominated for 3 oscars, including best picture and best director, but funnily enough it didn't qualify for Foreign Language Category. Just to highlight the politics of these grossly over rated awards, language is not the prerequisite for nomination, it's finance. To qualify the film has to be financed from a single production company, or from a number of production companies from a single country. Red was a Swiss/French co-production.
RED was nominated for Best Picture that year along with THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION, PULP FICTION, FORREST GUMP and one other film I can't remember. Somehow Forrest Gump won. I still can't work that one out, it was a greater mistake than Gwyneth beating Cate for best actress a few years latwer.

RED was ignored at Cannes. Pulp Fiction won best picture, Tarantino won best director and Irene Jacob and Jean-Louis Trintignant were not even nominated in the acting catergories.

RED is regarded by most as the best of the trilogy, but it is the only one of the three not to have won an award at a major festival or Oscars.
 
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