Insight into Trois couleurs: Rouge

Insight into Trois couleurs: Rouge (Three colors: Red) from the Criterion Collection DVD.

[@scotttully8572]

I've been adoring this movie for decades, but last night's viewing brought a new insight. This movie is about FORGIVENESS. The judge is a part of us that is harmed and does not know how forgive. At this point, we become like the retired judge: we shut down, we find ourselves ruminating over "motives", "culpability", "pity", etc., sometimes for decades. We become old and frail, until we can no longer love anything or anyone. Cracks start to appear; we notice that these walls have shut us in. We have even forgotten how to ask for - or accept - help. Enter another person (another part of ourselves, which could represent our own soul) who knows how to love us in a way that INCLUDES our faults, someone who does NOT judge us, whose forgiveness towards us helps us forgive OURSELVES. Then, and only then, are we able to return to our past vulnerability, our past ALIVENESS, and (in this case) our past SELF. Only then are we ready to have the relationship we always wanted, but were blocked from by our own stubbornness. We can finally look out at the world again, through the broken window - as in the final scene - with optimism and self-love.

[@danielholiphant]

These are Christian films for a non-Christian audience. They present Christ to millions of people who would otherwise never open a Bible. The love of God is the central theme, and forgiveness is the foundation of that love. I believe these films are the work of God himself; they go far beyond human genius. Agape/Eros/Philia

[@Neuroneos]

I love Insdorf's analysis, her audio commentaries are always so thoughtful.

[@dougo891]

Just becoming familiar with this great trilogy...at age 70. Bleu & Blanc are haunting

[@piotrkonieczynski]

Well done. Go for Decalogue the opus magnum.

[@00billharris]

Actually a tetrology if you consider Veroniqie...in amber,

[@olgasipos992]

one of my 5 most loved movies- maybe the 1st one

[@100dbird]

Please name the rest

[@ethidian3444]

My favorite films are Transformers, Transformers 2, Transformers 3, Transformers 4, and Three Colors: Red.

[@arthur_yang]

idem

[@SB-vt4uw]

its in my top 3 for sure, probably #1

[@randywhite3947]

@@ethidian3444 excellent taste

[@michael-davidarrkerns4799]

What a wonderful...conversation. Thanks so much for posting this.

[@AgentOccam]

Yes, agree with others here: thanks for posting this. It's a really interesting commentary on what is frankly one of the greatest films of all time.

[@inasible]

This is an amazing approach to the film and master filmaker

[@jonlenin9982]

never seen a girl more beautiful!

[@michaelpresberg3817]

It is a disservice to call him a giant of cinema. He is a giant of modern art. Thanks for posting this analysis.

[@00billharris]

I love your elevated sense of irony. Mine is to say that he killed cinema as such by solving all the issues and questions of the last 80 years therein. For example, a reorganizing of the traditional relationship between image, sound, and music; interior lighting/stedicam= space age high speed film; a total composition of 100 minutes in monochrome; and lastly, the portrayal of inner consciousness.

[@Leftfield71]

This was the best "extra" on the Miramax DVD box set from 20+ years ago, unfortunately it has never appeared on any of new Blu-Ray releases of the last few years, which is a shame, as it was a wonderful, insightful mini doco. Thanks for posting.

[@thomasfranche6770]

I agree, except that the Miramax set also had 7 deleted scenes from Red, a few of which were quite interesting (Valentine's brother, Auguste in the rain).

[@sudarshandutta2498]

only Europe can make such a trilogy.

[@nait51]

great movie!

[@paulsmith5949]

I love this trilogy and especially Red. I plan to see the newly restored versions of all three in upcoming weeks. Thank you for an insightful analysis!

[@arinanikolaev1773]

Where

[@therealconniefrancis]

The judge's other neighbors are also a very interesting topic to discuss. Both the secret gay couple and the drug dealer. As well as Valentine's brother, the heroin addict.

[@sudarshandutta2498]

I have seen the trilogy more than thrice.

[@mosiotv]

Tnx 4 uploading 👍🏻 anybody knows where can I find full interview of Irene?

[@sudarshandutta2498]

a sincere eulogy.

[@darkphoenix474]

Is this really on the Criterion set? Their site or any reviews make no mention of it.

[@thomasfranche6770]

No, this was on the Miramax box set. The Miramax set is actually better than Criterion's.

[@sergioproto9943]

What novel is she talking about? The repetition? Who is the author? Thanks!

[@cbathgate66]

Hi, she referred to a book by Kierkegaard called 'Repetition', though he wrote it under a pseudonym Constantin Constantius.

[@vascojoao]

camus the fall is a lot of similar

[@danielholiphant]

Blue White Red Agape Eros Philia Genesis 2:7 King James Version (KJV) 7 And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. Matthew 24:37-39Revised Standard Version (RSV) 37 As were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of man. 38 For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, 39 and they did not know until the flood came and swept them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of man."

[@soulsearchtarot]

Blue is philia and Red Agape imo as it is love above all loves. Blue is love between a couple.

[@melizaygul2295]

​@@soulsearchtarot but philia is commonly referred to as the brotherly love, it is about the connection, the love between the people, the fraternity just like the way it is in the film red

[@arism74]

meizon de touton i agape....

[@thomasfranche6770]

Wow, you are exactly right and I never made that connection. (even though that's what the Greek words in Song for the Unification of Europe were : faith, hope and love, but the greatest of these is love (agape, eros and philia - charity, sexual love and brotherly love).

[@danielholiphant]

@@thomasfranche6770These are Christian films for a non-Christian audience. I became a Christian after having watched each of these films dozens of times (mostly when I was depressed), until realizing that only God could fill the void inside of me that these films were able to fill. These films come to life when examined through the lense of the Bible. I gradually stopped looking for truth in art, and began to search for it instead in the Bible. To this day I don’t believe these are merely films; even as a Christian I believe they are divinely inspired. The nuances go far beyond human genius.

[@00billharris]

Yes, in the Deleuzian sense, Red is a Rhyzomology. Coincidental encounters garther and build themselves into an immanent spirituality. Such is the nature of fraternite/friendship; therefore, Life itself. Now we can all get a good laugh at the amerikun perferssur/kritik who reduces the genius of Kieslowski to the level of glorified soap opera. She's comic relief, indeed, when discussing Film as an interrogation of meaning...but then again, that smiling english guy infers tha K was in love with Irene--a blokishly tacky remark that only indicates taht all of today's film criticism has fallen to the level of hollywood gossip. But then again, the finale of Blue anticipated Red withthe Pauline, "The greatest of all is chariry"; therefore he's correct in stating that, thematically, Fraternity takes precidence over both Liberty and Equality as a Kieslowskian Credo. Lastly, i'm surprised that the interviewees missed two crucial points of K's work: technical innovation of an astounding level and the first director ever to realize the 80 year dream of shooting human consciousness,