What is BLUE/WHITE about?

BLUE. In the first installment, BLUE, a chic Parisian woman (Juliette Binoche) is determined to start a new life after the loss of her husband and daughter in a car accident. Binoche's cool, enigmatic performance here set a new standard for French screen beauty - Jeanne Moreau for the ’90s. In French, Romanian and Polish with English subtitles. WHITE. A luminous Julie Delpy plays Dominique, a wife who leaves her impotent husband, sparking a series of skirmishes between the two in which Kieslowski expresses his theme of "equality" via its darkest implications - in terms of revenge and getting even. The film is both a deliciously biting sex satire and a witty portrait of Poland in the early 1990s; in contextualizing his characters within the failure of communism, Kieslowski argues that true equality is an unattainable pipe dream.

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What is BLUE/WHITE about?: BLUE. In the first installment, BLUE, a chic Parisian woman (Juliette Binoche) is determined to start a new life after the loss of her husband and daughter in a car accident. Binoche's cool, enigmatic performance here set a new standard for French screen beauty - Jeanne Moreau for the ’90s. In French, Romanian and Polish with English subtitles. WHITE. A luminous Julie Delpy plays Dominique, a wife who leaves her impotent husband, sparking a series of skirmishes between the two in which Kieslowski expresses his theme of "equality" via its darkest implications - in terms of revenge and getting even. The film is both a deliciously biting sex satire and a witty portrait of Poland in the early 1990s; in contextualizing his characters within the failure of communism, Kieslowski argues that true equality is an unattainable pipe dream.