Film Studies Publications
Title
Kieślowski and the Antipolitics of Color: A Reading of the Three Colors Trilogy
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Winter 2002
Volume
41
Issue
2
Journal
Cinema Journal
First Page
41
URL with Digital Object Identifier
http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cj.2002.0001
Last Page
66
Abstract
This essay aligns the emphasis on color in Krzysztof Kieslowski's "Three Colors" trilogy with his explicit renunciation of political discourse. The trilogy undermines the bipolarity so often associated with such discourse through the antithetical meanings its narratives associate with the colors and through the existentialism that propels each of the principal characters unexpectedly from one position to its opposite.
