Co-written, Directed and Produced by: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Starring: Irene Jacob
Nominated for 3 Oscars, and for Palme d'Or at Cannes.
When you watch any scene in this film, you sense the confidence of the filmmaker. Particularly with the blocking, and the camera movements. Every minute move of the actor and the camera is choreographed, and yet it looks seamless and it looks like everything is magically falling into place. The film is about solitude, heartbreak and it has an anti-romantic worldview to it, which is ironic because red is usually a color used to express romance. It also goes into the territories of the butterfly effect, and how chance plays a huge role in life. Sometimes, I tend to overthink but my life would've been drastically different hadn't I dropped a text to a stranger on a particular day. Hadn't I opened my phone and stumbled upon an ad for event, which changed my life. I'm sure there'd be a lot of such things that would've changed our lives for good or bad, which we ignore and pass by. The film talks about this aspect of life, even through the ending.
The opening imagery of the film is pretty abstract, but as we see the film we understand what it was. The telephone lines. The interconnected nature of life. And of course, we see red in almost every frame of the film. Either in Valentine's lipstick, or in at least one property in the frame, and sometimes even the color of the car passing by a road in the background. Things like these is what tell us how everything that we see in the film is crafted to tell story. Sometimes it's on our faces and sometimes it's subtle.
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