The Color Blue By Kieslowski s Masterpiece - 1151 Words

Kieslowski’s masterpiece is a trilogy known as Three Colors, named after the stripes of the French flag. According to Kieslowski himself all of the films center on individuals who sense something that is not articulated in dialogue. This is telling of a director who is constantly trying to reconcile a new Pan-European identity in a world that had yet to develop a language to articulate it. The color Blue (1993) is about a woman who secretly writes the music that made her husband a famous composer. Her husband and daughter die in a car crash at the beginning of the film. Julie, the main character, is thrown into depression, and spends the rest of the film trying to rebuild what it means to be here in this new world of chaos. Spanish cinema has an irregular timeline when compared to other European nations due to the way the Franco regime existed. Franco was in power in Spain from 1939 to 1975, and deployed heavy censorship policies while attempting to restrict the artistic freedom of Spanish directors. Despite this fact, the death of Franco along with the democratic regime transition in Spain had â€Å"no radical break with the [cinematic] past, since over the last twenty-five years or so many of the key figures who worked during the Franco period survived the transition to democracy and continue even now to make significant films† (251). Luis Bunuel had achieved international fame with his work with Dali on Un Chien Andalou. During the Franco Regime, he had moved to the United