Three Colors: White/Trois Couleurs: Blanc (1994) - Kieslowski's dark marital revenge 'comedy'

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+ 3rd Worst Movie of the Year

The original, French poster for Krzysztof Kieslowski's marital dramedy Blanc

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A woman divorces her Polish man in Paris, because he cannot satisfy her sexually. Poor and without a passport, he comes back to Poland in a suitcase. From there, he devices a strange revenge.
Blanc is the middle film in Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski's (Dekalog: The Ten Commandments (1989-90)) Blue-White-Red-trilogy based on the French flag and its values of old-revolutionary ideals, freedom, equality and fraternity. It is a French/Polish/Swizz co-production and is by some viewed as Kieslowski's 'anti-comedy', while Bleu is seen as his 'anti-tragedy' and Red his 'anti-romance'. I view it as a drama/black comedy.
The problem with Blanc is not that the audience don't sense a tremendous intelligence beneath all of the film's complications, because that intelligence is obviously there; it is simply just not a gripping drama nor a fun comedy.
Blanc is, unfortunately, a boring, nondescript film that falls between chairs.
For Kieslowski at his best, see instead his masterpiece Trois Couleurs: Bleu (1993).

Related review:

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Three Colors: Blue (1993) - Life and loss in Kieslowski's lyrical masterpiece

Watch the Criterion Collection's three reasons to watch Blanc here

Budget: Unknown
Box office: 1.4 mil. $
= Uncertainty

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