Three Colors: Red

(Trois couleurs: Rouge, Krzysztof Kieslowski, France/Poland/Switzerland 1994, 99 min., 35mm, French w/subtitles)

A triumphant finale to both the trilogy and an illustrious career, Red not only connects the glowing signposts of Kieslowski’s work but also transmits the signal among the disjointed elements of the everyday. In what many call an extension of her role in The Double Life of Veronique, Irene Jacob plays a young model unexpectedly caught in the modern peeping-tom activities of a retired judge. Finding herself increasingly implicated in the private lives of others, Jacob extends a halting fraternal hand—as does the film in its unique ability to make its heroine’s experience the viewer’s as well.

Presented in collaboration with the Skalny Center for Polish and Central European Studies, University of Rochester.