Trois couleurs: Blanc (1994)

	Directed by: Krzysztof Kieślowski	COUNTRY France/Poland/ Switzerland GENRE Drama/Comedy INTERNATIONAL TITLE Three Colours: White NORWEGIAN TITLE Hvit RUNNING TIME 88 minutes
	Produced by: Marin Karmitz
	Written by: Krzysztof Kieślowski Krzysztof Piesiewicz

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
Karol Karol	Zbigniew Zamachowski
Dominique Vidal	Julie Delpy
Mikołaj	Janusz Gajos
Jurek	Jerzy Stuhr	-
The lawyer	Aleksander Bardini	-
The elegant man	Grzegorz Warchoł	-
Madame Jadwiga	Teresa Budzisz-Krzyżanowska	-

Review

This second entry in Kieślowski’s Trois couleurs trilogy is arguably the most playful and wryly humorous. The busy script sees Polish Paris expat Karel Karel (Zbigniew Zamachowski) stripped of everything when his wife divorces him, only for him to smuggle himself back to his homecountry where he picks up his former life and soon lays great plans to get his wife back. The story twists and turns, but not in a gimmicky fashion. There is real movement in Kieślowski’s characters and narrative world, and you feel attracted to them, even if they are inherently bleak and mostly unsympathetic. The filmmaker mixes elements of dark humour with social realism, and the result is an entertaining and clever film whose only weakness is the greatness it never quite reaches.