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Ken and Robin Consume Media is brought to you by the discriminating and good-looking backers of the Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff Patreon<\/a>. Each week we provide capsule reviews of the books, movies, TV seasons and more we cram into our hyper-analytical sensoriums. Join the Patreon to help pick the items we\u2019ll talk about in greater depth on a little podcast segment we like to call Tell Me More.<\/i><\/p>\n Three Colours: Blue<\/a> (Film, France\/Switzerland\/Poland, Krzysztof Kie\u015blowski, 1993) After her daughter and composer husband die in a car crash, Julie (Juliette Binoche) tries to liberate herself from other people. Near-perfect sound, lighting, score, and production design buttress the twin triumphs of Kie\u015blowski\u2019s direction and Binoche\u2019s performance, which pulls the whole film from despair to grief to a veritable struggle against art and love. Overwhelmingly great. \u2013KH<\/p>\n Three Colours: Red<\/a> (Film, France\/Switzerland\/Poland, Krzysztof Kie\u015blowski, 1994) In Geneva, model Valentine (Irene Jacob) hits a dog belonging to retired judge Joseph (Jean-Louis Trintignant) and enters his bleak web of fraternity. Remarkable two-hander scenes power and illuminate the core of this \u201canti-tragedy\u201d about chance, fate, connection, love, need, and time. Amazing inverted pyramid of a film ends the trilogy perfectly on a still image. \u2013KH<\/p>\n London Particular<\/a> (Fiction, Christianna Brand, 1952) [Published as Fog of Doubt in the US.] A thick fog blankets London when a Belgian bon viveur gets his head smashed in a doctor\u2019s house: can Inspector Cockrill see through it? Remorseless fair-play mystery showcases Brand\u2019s unsentimental but winning character portraits, a masterpiece of misdirection in every sense. I may have a new Queen of Crime. \u2013KH<\/p>\n Three Colours: White<\/a> (Film, France\/Switzerland\/Poland, Krzysztof Kie\u015blowski, 1994) After his wife Dominique (Julie Delpy) cruelly dumps and destroys him, schlemiel Polish hairdresser Karol (Zbigniew Zamachowsky) resolves to equalize their situation. The comic heart of the film bats between opposites and twins \u2013 East and West, crime and friendship, love and hate, Karol and his ally Mikolaj (Janusz Gajos), life and death. Not quite as beautiful or pure as the other two \u201cColours,\u201d so merely a superb film instead of a transcendent one. \u2013KH<\/p>\nThe Pinnacle<\/h2>\n
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