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Blue appears to be quite a fashionable name for movies this season; both Krsysztof Kieslowski and Derek Jarman have called their latest movies that. Kieslowski's film has attracted more attention, possibly because of Juliette Binoche's swan neck. Jarman's film does not seduce the spectator with a slow does not seduce the spectator with a slow strip-tease; from the beginning, it presents itself naked, refusing to be idealized or objectified. It is, in this sense, a deeper shade of blue...
...window, she listens to the phone ring; in a moment of high agitation she may drag on a Gauloise. A vision of dyspeptic distress, she is a modernist pinup for the monastic voyeur behind the camera. When the woman is lovely, pouty Juliette Binoche, and the director is Krzysztof Kieslowski, the picture can become the X ray of anguish: not stargazing but soul gazing...
...Kieslowski, a Polish filmmaker now working in France, has an imposing European reputation from his 10-part series The Decalogue (still unreleased in the U.S.). His Franco-Polish The Double Life of Veronique earned its star, Irene Jacob, the best-actress award at last year's Cannes Film Festival. His new Blue won Binoche the best-actress prize this September in Venice. So Kieslowski knows two or three things about showcasing beautiful women. He gives them an identity crisis, locks them alone in a Paris apartment and puts their chic, bleak spirits handsomely on display...
...friends and herself. "I don't want any love, memories, belongings," she says. "Those are traps." It takes her the length of the film to realize that isolation is the deadliest snare, that the only release is art and passion. But the true drama can be found in Kieslowski's meticulous images. Cool and seductive, they are the perfect frame for Binoche's harried glamour...
...DOUBLE LIFE OF VERONIQUE. Krzysztof Kieslowski's mood piece about two young women -- one Polish, the other Parisian -- is both emotionally opaque and theatrically radiant, for it showcases a beautiful star in the making, Irene Jacob. She won Cannes's Best Actress prize this year; may she illuminate movie screens for decades to come...