You suggested we ask Kieslowski scholar Nicholas Reyland to tell us what to listen out for while watching Krzysztof Kieslowski's trilogy. Here, he offers a rhapsody in Blue (and White and Red)
• You can already stream the Three Colours trilogy on our site; join us from 7pm this Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, when we'll be liveblogging the films, and enter our competition for a chance to feed into Peter Bradshaw's blog for Three Colours Red on the final evening
The Three Colours Trilogy marked the culmination a decade of collaborations between director Krzysztof Kieslowski and composer Zbigniew Preisner. Their film work is characterised by musical moments which illuminate the story and open up channels of interpretation between the work and the audience. These are cinematic narratives – as Stanley Kubrick once said of Kieslowski's The Decalogue – which dramatise ideas, rather than merely talk about them. Preisner's music is central to that process.
• You can already stream the Three Colours trilogy on our site; join us from 7pm this Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, when we'll be liveblogging the films, and enter our competition for a chance to feed into Peter Bradshaw's blog for Three Colours Red on the final evening
The Three Colours Trilogy marked the culmination a decade of collaborations between director Krzysztof Kieslowski and composer Zbigniew Preisner. Their film work is characterised by musical moments which illuminate the story and open up channels of interpretation between the work and the audience. These are cinematic narratives – as Stanley Kubrick once said of Kieslowski's The Decalogue – which dramatise ideas, rather than merely talk about them. Preisner's music is central to that process.
- 11/14/2011
- The Guardian - Film News
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