Three Colors: Blue - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

Fan of Three Colors: Blue or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to Three Colors: Blue

[manuel]

At the 2018 Visegrad Film Forum, cinematographer Slawomir Idziak claimed that the script and initial cut of this film focused on the journalist character (played by Hélène Vincent) and her efforts to investigate the authorship of the unfinished musical composition that drives the plot. It was only during the editing process that director Krzysztof Kieslowski re-structured the film to focus on Julie (played by Juliette Binoche).

[frederick]

Fade outs in this film, which are traditionally used in movies to represent time passing or to conclude a certain scene, instead bring the viewers back to the point in time which the fade out began. The occasional fade outs and fade ins to Julie's character are used to represent an extremely subjective point of view. According to director Kieslowski: "at a certain moment, time really does pass for Julie while at the same time, it stands still. Not only does her music come back to haunt her at a certain point, but time stands still for a moment."

[gerald]

When the pictures of Patrice are showed on TV, one of them shows him with the famous Bulgarian pianist Alexis Weissenberg.

[claude]

Zbigniew Zamachowski, Julie Delpy: the stars of the sequel Three Colors: White (1994), make appearances in this film.

[jeffrey]

After the opening screening of this film at the 2018 Visegrad Film Forum in Bratislava, cinematographer Slawomir Idziak described an unusual technique he used to shoot the scene where blue light glares appear superimposed over Juliette Binoche's character. It was apparently achieved by wrapping the camera in blue gels, opening its rear and flashing lights directly at the film negative.

[richard]

At one point, we see Julie carrying a box which, as a close-up shows, has prominently written across it the word "blanco", Spanish for white; in the next shot we are looking at her from behind, and she pauses in the street as a man in blue passes her on her left and a woman in red passes her on her right. This is a subtle reference to the structure of the Three Colours trilogy - blue, white, red, in that order, mirroring the French flag. In another scene, children in red and white bathing suits run out and jump in the blue swimming pool.

[miriam]

A woman trying to throw a bottle into a glass container is visible at the beginning of the movie. This seems to be the same woman seen doing this in "Three Colors: White", probably suggesting a parallel action of the movies. In "Three Colors: Red" the same woman can be seen again, this time, however, it is night and she receives help from Valentine, thus finally succeeding in throwing the bottle into the glass container.

[sandra]

Kiee'lowski features music by the fictitious 17th century Dutch composer Van De Budenmayer in this movie and la Double Vie de VÃronique.

[kristina]

For the shot where Julie scrapes her hand along a stone wall, Juliette Binoche was originally supposed to wear a prosthetic to protect her hand, but it looked too obvious on camera. Binoche felt the scene was important enough that she actually dragged her unprotected hand along the wall, drawing real blood. She claims it took over a year for her hand to heal completely

[stephanie]

To add a blue hue to a negative one would need to use a gel the opposite of blue.

[dustin]

The chorus from the symphony is from Corinthians 13

[ava]

When Olivier has tracked down Julie but is then ignored by her, there is a close-up of Julie allowing a sugar cube to soak up her coffee. Deeming that the sugar cube had to soak up the coffee in precisely 5 seconds, Krzysztof Kieslowski had his assistant director test multiple brands (which soaked with coffee anywhere from 3 to 11 seconds) to find one that took just the correct time.

[tom]

The film never clearly states whether Julie or Patrice is the real composer of Patrice's music. The fact that she turns out to be an expert composer suggests that she is the real creator. However, Julie shows Olivier a piece of music left by Patrice, which indicates that he wrote music too. Near the end, Olivier insists that Julie must publicly reveal herself as the composer of her completion of the symphony, but this does not mean she had also composed the unfinished symphony before Patrice's death. Ultimately, it is possible that the couple composed music as a team, while publicly stating that Patrice was the sole composer.

[sandra]

Although not explicitly stated, the three films in this trilogy address the three elements of the French motto "freedom, equality, brotherhood", in that order. The story of Blue explores the theme of freedom by examining what Julie does when "freed" from the bonds of marriage and motherhood. She shows respect for the freedom of others by refusing to support the eviction of the prostitute in her building. It is hinted that she may be the real composer of her husband's music, suggesting that she used him as a front to preserve her own freedom from public attention. However, while she initially pursues freedom by rejecting all ties and emotional bonds to others, she ultimately decides to open her heart to loving someone again (Olivier), and in the final scene, finally feels free to weep for the first time.