Part of Trilogies, Pt 1 and Three Colors Trilogy.
The most playful and also the grittiest of Kieślowski’s Three Colors films follows the adventures of Karol Karol (Zbigniew Zamachowski), a Polish immigrant living in France. The hapless hairdresser opts to leave Paris for his native Warsaw when his wife (Julie Delpy) sues him for divorce (her reason: their marriage was never consummated) — and then frames him for arson after setting her own salon ablaze. WHITE, which goes on to chronicle Karol Karol’s elaborate revenge plot, manages to be both a ticklish dark comedy about the economic inequalities of Eastern and Western Europe and a sublime reverie about twisted love.
See also:
THREE COLORS: BLUE (Fri, Sep 2 | Tue, Sep 6)
THREE COLORS: RED (Sun, Sep 4 | Thu, Sep 8)
