Three Colours: White
Film details
| Film Title | Three Colours: White |
|---|---|
| Suitability | |
| Genre | |
| Length | 92mins |
| Year | 1994 |
| Country | French |
| Director | Krzysztof Kieslowski |
| Language | French, Hungarian, Polish |
| AKA | Trois couleurs : Blanc |
| Showings |
Polish immigrant Karol Karol finds himself out of a marriage, a job and a country when his French wife, Dominique, divorces him after six months due to his impotence. Forced to leave France after losing the business they jointly owned, Karol enlists fellow Polish expatriate Mikołaj to smuggle him back to their homeland.
What a strange confection White is – an opera of male agony and outrageously implausible picaresque adventure. Yet it succeeds amazingly on its own melodramatic terms.
★★★★★
It’s often cruel, of course, and cool as an ice-pick, but it’s still endowed with enough unsentimental humanity to end with a touching, lyrical admission of the power of love. Essential viewing.
★★★★★
