France: Blue (1993)

Blue portrays the tragedy of Julie Vignon played by Juliette Binoche who was caught by surprise by tragedy after losing her husband and daughter in a traffic accident. This painful situation takes her through  a difficult time of deep,but hidden sorrow and loneliness. Her reaction to her intense pain, is to remove herself from the world with the intention of avoiding her new reality. She makes efforts to star a new life away from everyone and thanks to the magistral work of the director Krzysztof Kieślowski's and the director of photography, the Polish Slawomir Idziak, the audience is able to live the character’s period of grief and reconstruction as if it was it’s own. Idziak plays with light, reconstructs reality, and takes us through a “blue” world reigned by nostalgia.

This illustration of the sometimes exciting and sometimes painful "life goes on" is wonderfully transmitted by Binoche. The audience is caught in the world of her character and can’t take it’s eyes out of her throughout the entire movie. She is able to make us feel her pain through her eyes without the need of crying. She is able to let us see the color blue of her soul without saying a word. 

The presence of music in the film is also very powerful in the film. It is as if “the music” was a character by itself. A very important character which  accompanied every moment, every second of the film. The “music” directed the scenes and gave them power. The “music” was the hidden observer that knew it all. 

"Blue" is a beautiful poem, a beautiful story, a beautiful film that leaves the audience screaming for more. It is not an easy film though, on the contrary, it is slow, intimate, with many silences. 
It is a film that may not be suitable for all audiences. Rather than just watching it, the audience has to perceive it; to truly live it and in order to that, they must be receptive and have at least a minimum of sensitivity.

After this movie, the blue color always seems infinitely sad, but hopeful to me.