Red . Tucson Weekly . 04-13-95

Red

DIRECTED BY: Krzysztof Kielowski

REVIEWED: 04-13-95

Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Kielowski received a Best Director nomination for this crimson-hued meditation about how much our lives are determined by chance encounters and coincidence. It's easy to see what he was nominated for--his imagery, which includes everything from a visual explanation of the routes taken in a long-distance phone connection to a woman's face appearing to melt as a large cloth billboard is dismantled, is sumptuous and inspired. But the story, in which a lonely young woman (Irene Jacob) talks out the film's themes with a jaded ex-judge and full-time cordless-phone voyeur (Jean-Louis Trintgnant), lacks forward momentum. The movie has resonance, but it's the resonance of a first-rate visual experiment, not a full-bodied drama.

--Zachary Woodruff

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