EFF: Three Colours: White (4K Restoration)

“It's almost perfect as far as it goes - a bleak but ultimately hopeful comedy.” — The Guardian

The most playful and also the grittiest of Kieslowski’s Three Colours films follows the adventures of Karol Karol (Zbigniew Zamachowski), a Polish immigrant living in France. The hapless hairdresser opts to leave Paris for his native Warsaw when his wife (Julie Delpy) sues him for divorce (her reason: their marriage was never consummated) and then frames him for arson after setting her own salon ablaze. White, which goes on to chronicle Karol Karol’s elaborate revenge plot, manages to be both a ticklish dark comedy about the economic inequalities of Eastern and Western Europe, and a sublime reverie about twisted love. 

Silver Berlin Bear Winner at the 1994 Berlin International Film Festival 

Three Colours: Red and Three Colours: Blue also screen at Europa! Europa Film Festival. The Three Colours trilogy is presented by Melbourne Cinémathèque and Cinema Reborn.

Rating

E

Language

French, Polish (English Subtitles)

Cast

Zbigniew Zamachowski, Julie Delpy

Director

Krzysztof Kieslowski