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he love that figures centrally in White appears more as a postulate than as a realized fact. To achieve something more durable and persuasive, real characters are required, not allegorical stick figures.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Three Colors: White
1994 · 1h 32m · R
Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Directed by
Krzysztof Kieślowski
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Three Colors: White
Overview
Polish immigrant Karol Karol finds himself out of a marriage, a job and a country when his French wife, Dominique, divorces him after six months due to his impotence. Forced to leave France after losing the business they jointly owned, Karol enlists fellow Polish expatriate Mikołaj to smuggle him back to their homeland.
Director and cast
- Krzysztof Kieślowski Director
- Zbigniew Zamachowski as Karol Karol
- Julie Delpy as Dominique
- Janusz Gajos as Mikolaj
- Jerzy Stuhr as Jurek
- Aleksander Bardini as Le notaire
- Grzegorz Warchoł as Elegant
- Jerzy Nowak as Old Peasant
- Cezary Harasimowicz as L'inspecteur
- Philippe Morier-Genoud Cast
- Jerzy Trela Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
91%
Tomatometer
Fresh
The entertaining second seg of Krzysztof Kieslowski's Three Colors trilogy is involving, bittersweet and droll.
Lisa Nesselson, Variety
Fresh
It's often cruel, of course, and cool as an ice-pick, but it's still endowed with enough unsentimental humanity to end with a touching, lyrical admission of the power of love. Essential viewing.
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Fresh
How could the creator of Blue, the story of a woman who grieves by moping around Paris in a chichi haircut, possibly have followed it with such a rich, light-handed marvel?
Caryn James, New York Times
Fresh
Kieslowski, who so keenly satirized the crippling excesses of communism in his earlier work, unflinchingly has a go at training-wheels capitalism, but not without affection for the thawing tundra of his beleaguered mother country.
Jonathan Kiefer, Salon.com
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