TRZY KOLORY: BIALY (Three Colors: White, 1994) **1/2 Well this explains some of it, anyway, why so many men throw themselves so completely into dull jobs: it's a form of compensation! Dullards on so many other levels, determined to excel at whatever requires the fewest genuine gifts....Impotents of the world unite and conquer! I'm not sure that that was Krzysztof Kieslowski's central point, though; it would make very little sense in a film dedicated to "equality." Or would it? Equality through inferiority! No, no, surely that couldn't have been it. Julie Delpy is highly effective as the Polish vixen-wife with a cruel streak, and Janusz Gajos roams the periphery of the tale with a fatalistic nihilism so intensively casual as to attain some level of grandeur. Kieslowski keeps moving things around early, enough to sustain a psychic level that he will then repeatedly shatter down the stretch with a rapid and sustained series of plot twists that leave the viewer as perplexed as...a Polish immigrant in French court. Some of it is so ridiculous as to border on annoying, despite the hoary flamboyance of the rest, but some is illuminating in unexpected ways, and very brief bits are even funny.
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