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Actor: Frédérique Feder, Irène Jacob, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jean-Pierre Lorit, Samuel Le BihanBrand: Buena Vista Home Video
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: French (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 99 minutes
Published: 2003-03-01
DVD Release Date: 2003-03-04
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Miramax
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DVD Review: Almost surrealistic
Summary: 5 Stars
This film deals mostly with unexpected friendship and exchange of information between the youthful, idealistic, and beautiful model Valentine and the rather grizzled old misanthropic judge for whom life has no meaning and who spends his days wiretapping his neighbors.One of his neighbors is having an affair and the judge has recorded some pretty intimate conversations on tape. Valentine spends her days modeling and attending ballet classes; huge advertising posters bathed in red of her appear around Geneva; one night she hits a dog with her car which provides the reason for this relationship to develop. Each has something to offer the other: Valentine offers the cynical judge hope through her youth and the art of conversation and gentle persuasion; after his conversations with her, the tired old man gives up wiretapping and turns himself into authorities, and emerges with a new,more positive attitude (the fact that his dog has a litter of 7 puppies also helps); the judge has his personal history to relate to Valentine which she feels may be important to her future. "I feel something important is going on here," she says. He relates a dream he had recently in which Valentine was 50 and "woke up beside someone." Valentine takes his dream seriously. His history includes a long ago love with a woman who rejected him when he was a young lawyer ("all her furniture was white,she was blonde") and whose lover he convicted of a crime many years later, after this, his only love, died in a car accident.
Perhaps by accident, Valentine lives across the street in Geneva from a young lawyer whose life very closely resembles the old judge in his youth in numerous ways. The film details the young lawyer Auguste's daily life as a law student in Geneva, in which he is also spurned by a woman. Valentine has a boyfriend in London whom she talks with on the phone,a long-distance romance, and also a mother and younger brother who live in Calais. Unbeknownst to her mother, her younger brother is a drug addict. Valentine discusses her brother, who never knew his own father, with the judge. Valentine plans to visit her boyfriend in London but on the Channel ferry trip, which she looked forward to very much and about which she shares her enthusiasm with the old judge, the ferry boat sinks in bad weather and she and the young lawyer from Geneva are the only Swiss survivors. It is left to speculate whether Valentine and Auguste can develop a relationship.
"Red" has a positive tone, but the 1st installment in this trilogy,"Blue" is somewhat less optimistic. It concerns the 33-year-old woman who loses her famous composer husband and child in a car accident. The woman wants to forget her former life and rents an apartment in Paris to distance herself from all attachments, except for her mother who lives in a nursing home. She throws away her husband's musical scores, even knowing they are an important contribution to musical history. Some reviewers have commented that this attempt at detachment could be similar to Eastern religions. In this film, unlike "Red", animals have a negative connotation. She befriends a prostitute who lives downstairs and comes to appreciate some similarities between a street musician's flute music and her husband's. Eventually she is willing to help one of her husband's former associates ( who has loved her for some time) complete an unfinished score. But she finds out that her husband was having an affair of several years duration with a young attractive lawyer, who is now pregnant with his child.. Forgiving her, she makes arrangements to will her part of her husband's estate.
The film is bathed in blue, much more so than "Red" is bathed in red. She swims several times in a local pool--all blue--she owns a blue mobile sculpture, for starters. There are numerous closeups of her face in this film and it is truly a one-actress film.
Description of Red
Praised by critics nationwide as one of the year's 10 best films, RED is a seductive story of forbidden love -- and the unknowable mystery of coincidence. The final chapter in Krzystof Kieslowski's acclaimed "Three Colors" triology, RED stars sexy Irene Jacob (THE DOUBLE LIFE OF VERONIQUE) as a young model whose chance meeting with an unusual stranger leads her down a path of intrigue and secrecy. As her knowledge of the man deepens, she discovers an astonishing link between his past ... and her destiny! Academy Award(R)-nominated for writing, direction, and cinematography, RED is Kieslowski's crowning achievement -- a fascinating mystery sure to dazzle and entertain!The final section of the late Krzysztof Kieslowski's acclaimed Three Colors trilogy (preceded by Blue and White) is the least likely of the three to stand alone, and indeed benefits from a little familiarity with the first two parts. Nevertheless, it's a strong, unique piece that reflects upon the ubiquity of images in the modern world and the parallel subjugation of meaningful communication. Irene Jacob plays a fashion model whose lovely face is hugely enlarged on a red banner no one in Geneva can possibly miss seeing. Striking up a relationship with an embittered former judge (Jean-Louis Trintignant), who secretly scans his neighbors' conversations through electronic surveillance, Jacob's character becomes an aural witness to the secret lives of those we think we know. Kieslowski cleverly wraps up the trilogy with a device that brings together the principals of all three films. --Tom Keogh
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