Three Colors: Blue

Name: Three Colors: Blue
Genre: Drama
Released: 1993-09-08
Duration: 1 h 38 min
Rating: 7.2
Cast: Juliette Binoche, Benoît Régent, Florence Pernel, Charlotte Véry, Hélène Vincent

Trois couleurs : Bleu (1993)

Timing: 1:38 (98 min)

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Release date

1993-09-08

Country

France, Poland, Switzerland

Production

Canal+, Eurimages, CNC, France 3 Cinéma, MK2 Films, Zespół Filmowy TOR, CAB Productions, CED Productions

Genre

Drama

Budget

Box office

$1 527 572

Website

https://www.janusfilms.com/films/1437

Director

Krzysztof Kieślowski

Actors

Juliette Binoche, Benoît Régent, Florence Pernel, Charlotte Véry, Hélène Vincent, Philippe Volter, Claude Duneton, Hugues Quester, Emmanuelle Riva, Florence Vignon
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Scenario

Producer

Marin Karmitz

Camera operator

Slawomir Idziak

Composer

Zbigniew Preisner

Artist

Claude Lenoir

Audition

Margot Capelier

Editing

Jacques Witta
Whole Team (40)

Short description

The wife of a famous composer survives a car accident that kills her husband and daughter. Now alone, she shakes off her old identity and explores her newfound freedom but finds that she is unbreakably bound to other humans, including her husband’s mistress, whose existence she never suspected.

What's left behind the scenes

In one scene, Julie carries a box with the word "blanco" (Spanish for "white") written on it. In the next shot, the heroine is shown from behind, with a man in blue walking past her on the right and a woman in red on the left. This is a reference to the structure of the "Three Colors" trilogy – blue, white, red – as the colors of the French flag. These same colors are also played with in another episode, where children in red and white swim trunks jump into a pool with blue water.
When Patrice's photos are shown on television, one of them shows him with the famous Bulgarian-born pianist Alexis Weissenberg (1929-2012).
In one scene, a sugar cube dissolving in a cup of coffee is shown in close-up. Since the director wanted the sugar to dissolve in the coffee in exactly 5 seconds, Krzysztof Kieślowski made his assistants experiment with different varieties of coffee to determine the sugar’s dissolution time in each and find the one he needed. It turned out that it takes sugar from 3 to 11 seconds to dissolve in different types of coffee.
In the scene where Juliette Binoche’s character scrapes her hand against the wall, a prosthetic was initially considered to protect the actress’s hand, but the artificial hand was too noticeable. Binoche chose to forgo it and scratched her hand until it bled.