Bleu (1993)

First film in trilogy by Krzysztof Kieslowski devoted to exploring France's national motto, Liberty Equality, Fraternity. He followed this with Blanc and Rouge during the next year and died soon after.

Blue, the color of grief, looks at Julie (Juliette Binoche), who loses her composer husband and daughter in a car accident that she survives and lives on with her shattered life and attempts a kind of spiritual suicide. Julie proclaims "I want no belonging, no memories, no friends, no love....those are all traps." She lives on a physical level of smoking and swimming, resisting the emotional world as she journies into the possibility of true liberty. Can a person live without connection? She is lovely to watch as she engages with people and arrives at her answer to this question. I hope to see White and Red in the near future.