Three Colours: Blue

"(It) is a challenge to the imagination."

"The film is almost totally schematic and this weakens it. What strengthens it is the sheer emotional power of its making."

"Blue doesn't seduce the viewer into its very complex, musically formal arrangements. The narrative is too precious and absurd. The interpretation it demands seems dilettantish."

"A cacophonously intimate character study..."

"An arresting study of notions of individual freedom in the modern world. There's no facile moralising, simply a lucid examination of a woman's state of mind."

"Blue is certainly a spectacle for aesthetes, but its greatest asset is Binoche at the centre of it all."

"Most viewers of Three Colours Blue will be too busy trying to follow the plot, slight as it is, to feel they are grappling in any way with the heritage of the French Revolution."

"A typically frosty and impenetrable performance from Binoche fails to clarify exactly what's on this film's mind..."

"In this outing... Kieślowski's French characters are watered-down icons compared to their Polish counterparts."

"It is always startling to re-experience the glass-shattering honesty and intensity of (Binoche's) performance."