Red

The concluding chapter in filmmaker Krzysztof Kieslowski's "Three Colors" trilogy, Red stars the luminous Irène Jacob as Valentine, a young student and fashion model who befriends a bitter former judge (Jean-Louis Trintignant, his character a proxy for Kieslowski himself). Their accidental meeting ...more

The concluding film in his "Three Colors" trilogy, Krzysztof Kieslowski's Red (1994) explores the mysterious connections among isolated lives. From the opening shot, zooming through telephone lines for a call that ends in a busy signal, Kieslowski's intricately structured narrative plays off connections missed, accidental and intended, seductively weaving a story of interlocking destinies among the aptly named model Valentine, an embittered, eavesdropping retired judge, and a young jurist. While ...more