Saw them all and I'd have to go with Red as the best. However, I've no desire to ever see any of them again.....

No, I'm not saying they're artless at all, just that art is far from their primary purpose.

I love them but I've gotten the greatest pleasure out of showing them to others during my film nights - always a great response. RED usually gets the best response but, as some others here, BLUE is my favorite. And, I do like to see them again.

Red is my favourite. Then White, then Blue.

I went blind on this during the last DDD sale. I didn't regret it. The movies were fantastic. My favorites in order, Red, Blue, and then White.

^^I agree with Psych 1--these are fun films to share with others. I showed them to my film aesthetics class this term, and almost all of them were quite moved by them. We looked at them aesthetically--particularly Bleu, but by the time we got to Red we'd become quite philosophical about them.

I'd say Red was their favorite of the three, and it garnered an ovation when the credits began to roll.

At least ten students in the course went out and purchased the trilogy afterwards, and informed me of this fact, excitedly.

I regularly show Bleu in my Intro to Literary Studies class as an exercise in reading film--because it's so image-heavy and dialogue-light--and it turns out to be many students' favorite "text" for the course.

I've yet to Tykwer's film of Kieslowski's script for Heaven. Anybody got any opinions on it?

While not in the same level as the "Holy Trilogy" , The Decalogue, or The Double Life of Veronique... Heaven was still a very good film.

Tykwer brought in some of Keislowski's sensibilities into this film - without trying to imitate him. He did an admirable job in my opinion. I think it's worth at least a rental.

While we're on the topic, Danis Tanovic (No Man's Land) is directing Keislowski's L'enfer - the 2nd part of the "Heaven/Hell/Purgatory Trilogy". Add the fact that Emmanuelle Béart is starring, this is a definite must-see for me.

I thought Tykwer's Heaven was just ok, I've only seen Kieslowski's Bleu, haven't gotten around to the other 2, but I was absolutely fascinated by it. From what I remember, Heaven seemed to drag on quite a bit, just my opinion.

I just love it when a thread like this pops up once in a blue moon, becaues now I can tell people how I discovered these truly great films.

It was maybe 6-7 years ago, on a rainy, wet, and cold winter night. I was pretty bored, with nothing to do, and was out on the streets by myself when I walked past the local arthouse theater. Blue, White, and Red were playing. I had no idea what they were, or who Kieslowski was. However, I did find it intriguing that there was a line of people waiting to buy tickets for this, at only $5 for all three movies that night (this was around 6pm). Since I had nothing to do, I thought: why not? I wanted to be out of the house, but also out of the rain, so I got in line to see the Three Colors. I did have a sore ass after watching all three in one go, but when I walked out of the theater that night, I felt as though I had just seen something very special. You know the feeling when you discover something great and want to tell someone, but none of your friends are around, and you're just hopping up and down all the time waiting to tell someone the news about what you had just discovered? It was that good.

And I'm thankful these movies are out on DVD.

And Josh Z, we have had our differences, but I couldn't agree with you more about this beloved trilogy. I just blind bought the DVD boxset from Borders for 20 bucks (with all their coupons) and I'm ready to sell it to anyone in here...I don't expect anyone to agree with me as well, but these are three pretty damn overrated films, and Red is one of the worst films I have ever seen - I felt like I was watching a boring David Lynch film. What annoyed me the most with Red is that the old judge didn't actually live in the Carouge part of Geneva as this address was written on his dog's collar. For anyone that knows Geneva (as I lived there for a year), the judge obviously lived in the Cologny part of Geneva. It's the equivalent of a New York City movie being filmed in the Upper East Side, and calling it Soho (and not even making it look like the Soho). Nitpicky, but pretty annoying...

All the actresses and acting was fine in these films - I love Binoche, Delpy and Jacob, but these films themselves are all fair films. Symbolism, so what? The final scene at the end of Red, ooo wow! What a great ending! (sarcastic). These are overrated fair films that are loved by millions. I just didn't think they were that great. Yes, I probably don't understand them as much as the people that love them and if I did understand them, I still wouldn't like them. And I do like pretentious films, not just Hollywood in-your-face flicks (I love The Fall, Holy Mountain, and The Cremaster Cycle, to name a few of my favorite pretentious hard-to-understand flicks).

White: B
Blue: B-
Red: D-

I now consider Chungking Express, My Blueberry Nights, The Return, and now, Red, as some of the worst films I have ever seen in my life...

Definitely not a blind buy. I'm happy I saw White and Blue though, but I should have just rented them, instead of buying since I have no desire to ever watch these films again...

The first one I saw was Red and I absolutely adored it. I remember renting it on VHS a few years ago and immediately re watching it afterwards. I then saw Blue and White and thought they were fine. Blue, believe it or not, was too pretentious to me. Red at least was very trippy and metaphysical - stuff I can get behind. Blue was just a a slow moving drama, but I should probably give it another chance. White is fine, but it's a relatively light revenge comedy so it didn't hold quite the same weight as the others for me (but I still like it more than Blue).

I love both Blue and Red, but White, as the above poster mentioned, is a slight, somewhat fluffy film, especially compared to the other two in the trilogy. I was indifferent to both of the leads, and found myself quite disinterested in the outcome of their tedious schemes.

Who needs Netflix for this one! My library in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Portland, OR all had this trilogy readily available when I felt like watching it. My Portland suburban system has FOUR full copies of the trilogy in the system, with the bulk of the movies available right now.

It's silly to blind buy something like this when it's sitting on a library shelf in your community (or available to transfer in).

-beebs

Interesting thread. I bought this trilogy when it first came out. It sits still sealed on the shelf. Maybe I'll crack it during my holidday shutdown.

I agree toddly666, man I hate when movies pretend they are somewhere when they really aren't.

Totally ruined Lord of the Rings trilogy for me cause I KNEW DAMN WELL that they weren't really there. Fricken green screen garbage.

Agree!! toddly666, my eyes literally popped out of my head when I saw your ratings. I would go with the exact opposite. "Red" gets an A+ from me, "Blue" an A and "White" a B -

Yeah, I agree that White is the weakest of the trilogy. It's not a bad film by any means (in fact, I'd probably have a higher opinion of it if I wasn't directly comparing it to the other two films in the trilogy), it just feels light in comparison to the other two, and like NoirFan, I didn't care about the leads as much as I did the other two films.

For those of you that live in NYC, these three dvds are selling for $3.99 each at J&R. It's typical they go on super sale right after I waited years before buying them...

The Eastern European in me rejoices in Blanc... (for me it's a comedy)

The suitcase on the plane trick is the second shakiest in my list. The first one is passing the Danube riding a rubber doll before 1989 in Cristian Mungiu's Occident. The rest of the film is solid, but this is very unlikely to have happened. There weren't even condoms there, let alone these.
And if you will happen to be in the Academy Awards jury, you'll see that the 2F coin reappears in Caranfil's "The Rest is Silence" (sorry, I guess I'm not serious, that's also a comedy for me).