It has been almost a decade since I first gazed upon Krzysztof Kieslowski's Three Colors trilogy (1993-1994). After re-watching his first entry, Blue (1993, on the newly issued Criterion Blu-Ray), I chastised myself for having taken so long. While I remember being moved by Blue - Kieslowski's work as a whole affects me - and loving the trilogy as a whole, I failed to account for my own evolving position as a subjective viewer. Obviously, Kieslowski's films, like those of Robert Bresson, do not objectively change over time. However, our impressions of the films are changed, charged, and altered by our own life experiences. For instance, my personal impressions of the losses that Julie (Juliette Binoche) experiences in the opening moments of Blue were compounded the second time around. The films haven't changed but I have gone from being an single teenager to a married twenty-something.
