Colorful Films At Booth Library

Alliance Française of Northwestern Connecticut will be screening the “Liberty, Equality and Fraternity” film trilogy of the late Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski at C.H. Booth Library.

The first screening will be on March 28.

Screenings will be Sunday afternoons beginning at 2 pm. All films are in French with English subtitles. Admission is free.

The films – Blue, White and Red – will be screened in the order of their release. All three were released in 1994. The film colors coincide with the three colors of the French flag.

The first installment was released in 1994. Blue is the most somber of the three; it is a movie dominated by feelings of grief.

As the film begins a car accident claims the life of a well-known composer. His wife, played by Juliette Binoche (who later won an Academy Award for The English Patient), does not so much put the pieces of her life back together as start an entirely new existence. She moves to Paris, where she dissolves into a wordless life virtually without other people.

White, a comedy starring Julie Delpy, will be shown on April 18. Watch for cameos by Ms Binoche and Florence Pernel, who was also in Blue, in this film (Ms Delpy, in return, also makes an appearance in Blue).

The series will conclude with Red on May 23. Irene Jacob plays a fashion model whose lovely face is hugely enlarged on a red banner no one in Paris can possibly miss seeing. The final chapter of Kieslowski’s trilogy is that of a chance meeting, intrigue, secrecy, and an unlikely love.

Mr Kieslowski cleverly wrapped his trilogy with a device that brought together the principals of all three films in the final scene of Red.

The library, at 25 Main Street in Newtown, can be contacted at 426-4533.