Three Colors: White
Directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski • 1994 • France
Starring Julie Delpy, Zbigniew Zamachowski
The most playful and also the grittiest of Kieślowski’s Three Colors films follows the adventures of Karol Karol (Zbigniew Zamachowski), a Polish immigrant living in France. The hapless hairdresser opts to leave Paris for his native Warsaw when his wife (Julie Delpy) sues him for divorce (her reason: their marriage was never consummated) and then frames him for arson after setting her own salon ablaze. WHITE, which goes on to chronicle Karol Karol’s elaborate revenge plot, manages to be both a ticklish dark comedy about the economic inequalities of Eastern and Western Europe and a sublime reverie about twisted love.
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Three Colors: White
Directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski • 1994 • France
Starring Julie Delpy, Zbigniew ZamachowskiThe most playful and also the grittiest of Kieślowski's Three Colors films follows the adventures of Karol Karol (Zbigniew Zamachowski), a Polish immigrant living in France. The hapless hairdresser opts t...
Extras
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Kieślowski’s Cinema Lesson: WHITE
In this piece from 1994, director Krzysztof Kieślowski reviews the opening scene from WHITE and reveals how it was shaped in the editing room.
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Krzysztof Piesiewicz on Krzysztof Kieślowski
In this interview, recorded in 2011, Krzysztof Piesiewicz, cowriter of the THREE COLORS trilogy as well as a defense attorney and politician, discusses his long friendship and collaboration with director Krzysztof Kieślowski.
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Zbigniew Zamachowski and Julie Delpy on WHITE
In this program, produced in 2011, Polish actor Zbigniew Zamachowski and French actor Julie Delpy share their memories about the making of WHITE and discuss their admiration for director Krzysztof Kieślowski.
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The Making of WHITE
In the following behind-the-scenes program, director Krzysztof Kieślowski discusses some of the key narrative details in WHITE and the challenges and pleasures of shooting in Poland.
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Seven Women of Different Ages
Directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski • 1978 • Poland
Krzysztof Kieślowski made more than twenty documentaries, including this wryly observed short, which profiles seven ballet dancers, one for each day of the week. From a fledgling student to a star ballerina in her prime to an older dancer now cast...
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Talking Heads
Directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski • 1980 • Poland
Krzysztof Kieślowski made more than twenty documentaries, including the following short. In TALKING HEADS, Kieślowski poses the questions “What year were you born?” “Who are you?” and “What do you most wish for?” to forty different people, rangi...
