Three Colors: White
A bizarre beginning to my “old movies” section, I know: the middle film of a mid-90s French-Polish trilogy by the great Krzysztof Kieslowski. But I had never seen it, despite having seen the other two, “Blue” and “Red,” while at U.Va. Anyway: It’s great. All three are great. “White” is perhaps the craziest of the three: Kieslowski moves quickly and fluidly through a careening narrative that encompasses love lost and regained, death and rebirth, France and Poland, abject poverty and capitalist triumph. All in 90 vivid minutes. What a movie. And it has the wondrous Julie Delpy, albeit in a smaller role than I had anticipated, given that Juliette Binoche and Irene Jacob are so much at the center of “Blue” and “Red,” respectively. I now feel I should see those movies again along with Kieslowski’s other work, particularly his revered “Decalogue.”