Three Colours: Blue

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Three Colours: Blue
French theatrical release poster
French	Trois couleurs: Bleu
Directed by	Krzysztof Kieślowski
Written by	Krzysztof Kieślowski Krzysztof Piesiewicz
Produced by	Marin Karmitz
Starring	Juliette Binoche Benoît Régent Hélène Vincent Florence Pernel Charlotte Véry Emmanuelle Riva
Cinematography	Sławomir Idziak
Edited by	Jacques Witta
Music by	Zbigniew Preisner
Production companies	mk2 Productions SA CED Productions France 3 Cinéma CAB Productions TOR Studio Production Canal+
Distributed by	mk2 Diffusion (France) Rialto Film (Switzerland)
Release dates	8 September 1993 (1993-09-08) (France/Switzerland) 10 October 1993 (1993-10-10) (Warsaw)
Running time	94 minutes
Countries	France Poland Switzerland
Language	French
Box office	$1.5 million[1]

Three Colours: Blue (French: Trois couleurs: Bleu, Polish: Trzy kolory: Niebieski) is a 1993 psychological drama film co-written and directed by Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Kieślowski. It is the first instalment in the Three Colours trilogy, themed on the French Revolutionary ideals of liberty, equality and fraternity, followed by White and Red (both 1994). According to Kieślowski, the subject of the film is liberty, specifically emotional liberty, rather than its social or political meaning.^[2]

Set in Paris, the film follows a woman named Julie (Juliette Binoche) whose husband and daughter are killed in a car accident. Suddenly freed from her familial bonds, she tries to isolate herself and live in seclusion from her former ties. However, she discovers that she cannot escape human connections.^[3]

Upon its release, Blue received widespread critical acclaim and won several accolades, including the Golden Lion and the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival. It remains one of Kieślowski's most celebrated works.^[4][5] The male lead, Benoît Régent, died of an aneurysm at the age of 41 in October 1994, just one year after the film was released.^[6]