Guilty Pleasure

March, 2003

The Polish-born director Krzysztof Kieslowski quit making films at the peak of his game, in 1994 at the age of 52, soon after releasing Red, the third movie in his Three Colors triptych (after Blue and White) and died two years later. Three Colors (Miramax, $20 each) will arrive with lots of background features and interviews. Spending his later years as an expatriate in France, Kieslowski conceived of the films as meditations on the symbolism behind the French tricolor: In Blue (liberty), griev...