Recent Reviews for Three Colors: Red (Trois couleurs: Rouge)
Recent Reviews
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MCT:September 12, 2008It's easy to indulge yourself when a film get's this good. Irène Jacob is a wonderfully talented actress and I love the overall feel of the film but the ending felt way too forced for my liking.
Blue was perfection while Red and White are both are excellent films.
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MCT:August 20, 2008
A good ending for a great trilogy. Irene must act just in french language, she speaks an awfull spanish!
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MCT:August 17, 2008The third of this marvelous trilogy and the second better in my opinion. The story is great, the photography amazing, Irène Jacob
is so good as she was in "La Double vie de Véronique" and the end scene is a surprised... but only for who watched Bleu and Blanc before. -
MCT:August 11, 2008
For me, it's the best one of the 3 colors trilogy by Kieslowski. Beatiful, clever and intelligent plot.
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MCT:July 21, 2008It's been awhile since I've seen this. I liked it, but I think this is one of those movies that has that "Hindsight of Death Profundity" stamp on it, because of Kieslowski's unfortunate death the following year. Films like this, (the final film of the director, or star), tend to be regarded far higher than they might have been, had the death not occurred.
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MCT:May 9, 2008
a great finale to the Three Colors trilogy. all the subtle things Kieslowski brings together in these films is truly masterful. the most 'hopeful' of the 3 films.
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MCT:May 6, 2008
For the record Red is the best of director Krzysztof Kieslowski's color trilogy. This is a stunning piece of work in every way possible including a wonderful performance by Irene Jacob. Not a movie for everyone (a.k.a idiots will hate this movie and want to watch Transformers instead.) but for anyone willing to give the little foreign film a chance this is a must see.
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MCT:April 19, 2008To sum up the briiliance of Kieslowski's career, one needs only to watch this film. Kieslowski is a filmmaker of compassion and meditation. Not for anyone who doesn't go to the cinema to think.
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MCT:April 12, 2008
I love how the story revealed itself like curling-back layers of filoux pastry and how the 7 people from all three episodes came together in the climactic denouement - very clever, proper film-making.
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MCT:March 29, 2008And speaking of fantasy, Red borders on the fantastic, this third installment of Krzysztof Kieslowski's color trilogy. I have a strong desire to see something of a time travel element in this film, but it is more that there is a parallel between the old and young judge which turns on the success or failure of Irène Jacob's being there to "save" the younger judge from suffering the fate of the older one.
This is a beautiful story about the much vaunted redemptive power of love and, employing a benevolent sense of humor in his examination of the human comedy, Kieslowski actually effects redemption for all the principal characters of his trilogy when they are plucked from death at sea, saved absolutely by their creator, regardless of whether we think them worthy of being saved or not. Yes, regardless of what we may think, Kieslowski does believe them worthy, just as the old woman is worthy of being helped by Jacob to recycle her bottle. Perhaps the next best amusing detail is that the cheating woman and her lover are lost in the Channel on their yacht, she of the rather unreliable weather prediction service. Sadly, however, Trintignant's dog is also lost.
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MCT:March 17, 2008well 3rd one and in my opinion weakest one,, i didn't liked RED so much as Blue and White first two were much way better specialy White...
anyway it was nice and suprisingly to see caracters from first two in thr 3rd all of them surviving La manche accident , -
MCT:February 11, 2008
A very strong, powerful from Irene Jacob in the what is arguably the weakest part of Kieslowski's trilogy. Still very well done, though.
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MCT:February 10, 2008
Red Is Better Than White But Not As Good As Blue
The Story IS Cool And Jacob Is Ok
There's Nothing A Lot To Say About It
More TO Watch
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MCT:January 20, 2008
Red is, as I thought it would be, by far the strongest of the Trois Couleurs trilogy. A compelling masterpiece of writing, characterization, message, cinematography, everything imaginable.
It's hard to say much about the trilogy as a whole that hasn't already been addressed. After watching Red, my appreciation for it has been bolstered significantly. These are undeniably important, powerful films - ones worth seeing for anyone who's remotely serious about movies.
Roger Ebert's essay about the trilogy, which you can find on his website, is a really great read for better understanding. It says a lot about the sway these films hold that I want to read and learn more about them, and about Krzysztof Kieslowski and about his works. They may not be entertaining, but they are inexorably unique. -
MCT:January 5, 2008
Moral of this story: If you ditch your shitty boyfriend and then go on a boat trip that ends up in a storm, you might get to meet some interesting characters from other movies.
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MCT:January 2, 2008
Conclusion de sa trilogie sur la France contemporaine. Le plus complexe des trois et probablement le mieux ficelé. L'histoire est un peu lente à démarrer mais vers la fin ça devient vraiment captivant et ça valait la peine. Irène Jacob est tout simplement sublime et son interprétation est toujours très juste. La réalisation est impeccable. Une bonne conclusion à une magnifique trilogie qui gagne à être vue et revue.
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MCT:December 23, 2007
I liked it most among others ( white & Blue)...It's a combination of the Art of cinema and Visual art...very emotional and somehow sexy...
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MCT:December 16, 2007
Fascinated by its heat. How KIESLOWSKI symbolized his work by couleurs is genial. Rouge is my Favorites among trois couleurs
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MCT:November 23, 2007
"Deciding what is true and what isn't now seems to me...a lack of modesty."
O meu filme preferido do Kieslowski, a real masterpiece!
A Fraternidade é vermelha nos mostra a conexão com o mundo que nós não vemos, as coisas que perdemos por causa disso. Agora, muita gente não entende por que o filme é sobre a fraternidade, no entanto é só ver a amizade entre o juiz e a Valentine. A bondade da Valentine, a fraternidade que mostra em relação a todos, até aos estranhos . Valentine é diferente das outras personagens, que são egoístas e não fazem bondades ou como digo, atos de amor, lol.
Então, porque o juiz que espia a vida dos outros e Valentine tem uma forte ligação? É por causa da fraternidade, o vermelho aqui não é visto como algo violento, como o sangue por exemplo, mas sim como uma verdadeira conexão entre duas pessoas.
Kieslowki não fez que nem a maioria, essa não é uma classica história de amor de cinema. Ele mostrou a vida de verdade, as coisas que acontecem todos os dias e nós não percebemos, os relacionamento que temos mas não damos valor.
Enfim, a Fraternidade é vermelha vale a pena ser visto e absorvido. -
MCT:September 6, 2007
I loved this movie. The story's inter-twining relationship was very interesting. The colour-relationship and the action, with each usage of cinematography and every word and line perfect in a way that only Kieslowski could've done. It was a remarkable feat, one is the life of one from the past coming to the present and the other is one of the present going into the future. Every shot was done in a way that shows not just camera complexity, but pure beuty, to use glare, bulbs in a way so beautiful, I can't imagine knowing beauty any other way. The cinematoography here can really match "The Art Of Killing".
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MCT:September 3, 2007
"Deciding what is true and what isn't now seems to me...a lack of modesty."
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MCT:September 3, 2007
Among the finest European filmmaking of the 90s. Captivating, intriguing and enigmatic. What a trilogy!
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MCT:August 14, 2007
Is life destiny or mere coincidence? Kieslowski explores how our actions, and inactions, affect those around us. This final part to the "Three Colours" trilogy is a cinematic work of art with a darkly uplifting final message: tragedy paves the way for hope and new beginnings; and in life, who's to say what's good or what's bad?
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MCT:August 1, 2007
L'oeuvre est décevante, dans la mesure où, contrairement à son habitude, Kieslowksi fait d'une de ses qualités un de ses défauts. En effet, si Kieslowski a bien su m'épater par son éthique de travail, c'est par son art de la subtilité qu'il a su m'épater au cours de son Déclaogue et de ses couleurs Bleu et Blanc.
Toutefois, dans ce volet qui clôt d'ailleurs la trilogie, Kieslowksi approche le sujet d'une manière agressive, poignante, une façon de faire qui ne lui ressemble pas du tout. Kieslowski traite ainsi de l'inhumanité de l'être humain et de son penchant pour la perfidie et le pervers. Avec un autre réalisateur, j'y aurais peut-être accroché.
Mais pas avec un Kieslowksi qui, je le sais bien, est capable de nous en fournir beaucoup plus. -
MCT:August 1, 2007
The trilogy ends up with a beautiful film... A good performance by Irene Jacob, among with the music make the film very interesting...
