Between major and minor: political meanings of the French Revolution’s values in Krzysztof Kieślowski’s Three Colors trilogy
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Communication. Film. Micropolitics. Kieślowski. Three Colours.Abstract
This paper’s object of study is the Three Colors trilogy, by the Polish director Krzysztof Kieślowski (1941-1996), composed by Blue (1993), White (1994) and Red (1994). We discuss theoretically the positioning of the French Revolution’s values in the political field in the trilogy. The objective is to comprehend how the revolutionary values are micropolitically worked in each one of the movies that compose it. Based in an idea of a “minor cinema”, this article deconstructs the connections suggested by the Brazilian translation of the movie’s titles by showing how, paradoxically, values such as liberty, equality and brotherhood are experienced transversally in the characters’ quotidian, and contradicts its director by recognizing the inseparability of the molar and molecular strategies which make this trilogy one expression of the political cinema of the end of the 20th century.Downloads
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