Three Colors: White

Eastern European Cinema Presented by the MMAC

Showings

The Roxy Theater Screen 2 Mon, Mar 12, 2018 7:00 PM
Film Info
Series:Eastern European Cinema Presented by the MMAC
Rating:NR
Run Time:91 min
Release Year:1994
Country:France/Poland
Genre:Drama
Sponsored By:The Montana Museum of Art and Culture
Original Language:French, Polish
Subtitles:Subtitled
Cast/Crew Info
Director:Krzysztof Kieslowski
Cast Members:Zbigniew Zamachowski
Julie Delpy

Description

The Three Colors Trilogy, a boldly cinematic trio of stories about love and loss from Krzysztof Kieslowski, was a defining event of the art-house boom of the 1990s. The films are named for the colors of the French flag and stand for the tenets of the French Revolution—liberty, equality, and fraternity—but that hardly begins to explain their enigmatic beauty and rich humanity. Set in Paris, Warsaw, and Geneva, and ranging from tragedy to comedy, Blue, White, and Red (Kieslowski’s final film) examine with artistic clarity a group of ambiguously interconnected people experiencing profound personal disruptions. Marked by intoxicating cinematography and stirring performances by such actors as Juliette Binoche, Julie Delpy, Irène Jacob, and Jean-Louis Trintignant, Kieslowski’s Three Colors is a benchmark of contemporary cinema.

White, the most playful and also the grittiest of Kieslowski’s Three Colors films follows the adventures of Karol Karol (Zbigniew Zamachowski), a Polish immigrant living in France. The hapless hairdresser opts to leave Paris for his native Warsaw when his wife (Julie Delpy) sues him for divorce (her reason: their marriage was never consummated) and then frames him for arson after setting her own salon ablaze. White, which goes on to chronicle Karol Karol’s elaborate revenge plot, manages to be both a ticklish dark comedy about the economic inequalities of Eastern and Western Europe and a sublime reverie about twisted love.


Presented by the Montana Museum of Art and Culture in conjunction with their series "Contemporary Eastern European Prints: Recent Gifts from J. Scott Patnode."