Three Colors: White (1994)

Dominique (Julie Delpy) is in Paris court getting a divorce from her Polish Karol Karol despite his pleads. He loses everything and becomes penniless. Fellow Pole Mikołaj befriends him and offers him a job to kill somebody who already wants to die but isn't willing to do it. Mikolaj helps him to stowaway to Warsaw inside a suitcase. He reunites with his brother and gets a job as an unlikely bodyguard. Through various schemes and connections, he aims to take ultimate revenge.I would prefer to follow Julie Delpy in this movie. She is the more compelling actor. The moment she sets the curtains on fire is when I couldn't wait to see what else she's going to do. That chick is crazy. During the whole movie, I kept waiting for it to return to Dominique. The schemes that Mikolaj gets into are way too convoluted and disjointed. It's almost more important to make certain symbolic points than to make a compelling narrative. That's certainly Kieslowski's prerogative. I imagine if Dominique is the central character who gets to ride in the suitcase, do those schemes and come back to trick the weak-minded Karol. That would be an amazing character in a fun movie.

So much potential wasted, slowly.The second movie in Krzysztof Kieslowski's Three Colors trilogy. Each movie is separate and doesn't feature characters from the previous one(s) (except at the end of Red, but it made no difference to the story and was essentially Kieslowski showing off).The first, Blue, was engaging and mostly reasonably interesting. Doesn't end very well, but getting to the end was an interesting journey.White, however, doesn't have that same level of engagement or interest. Starts off okay, develops slowly and without a sense of direction, then all of a sudden you have some fairly bizarre and implausible twists. Then it ends. Even more unsatisfactory ending than Blue.Red is marginally better. Turns out that Blue was the best of the bunch after all.

Second of a trilogy of films dealing with contemporary French society shows a Polish immigrant (Zbigniew Zamachowski) who wants to get even with his former wife (Julie Delpy).Apparently, the film has a political subtext, in which Karol's impotence and financial helplessness in France, and subsequent rise as a somewhat shady capitalist, mirror the attempts of Poland to advance from its disadvantaged position within Europe. Was this intentional? Perhaps. But it is certainly one way to read the film."Three Colors: White "was met with critical acclaim by film critics, but is considered by many to be the weakest of the trilogy; it holds a 90% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, while the first and third films hold 100% ratings. 90% is nothing to get upset about.

at first sigh, a revenge story. in fact, only a window to Kieslowski definition of life. a portrait of cultural borders. and drawing of the need to be part of the other.a Polish story and splendid role for Julie Delpy. a film about love, fear, vulnerability and search of sense. and subtle, nuanced performance of Zbigniew Zamachowski. a letter from East. honest. so, cruel. with a beautiful end who defines entire cold poetry of movie. sure, it is a profound subjective review because, I admit, Kieslowski remains for me more than a brilliant director but a great witness , who not only present but defines the details of a period, the roots of a world who remains gray in light.