White

As with Blue, I get more out of it on every viewing. This time, I was struck by Karol's weakness and ineffectualness in France - before the film starts, he wins prizes for his hairstyling, but by the time we meet him, he is one sad sack loser - but when he returns to Poland, he quickly grows in cleverness and determination. In contrast, Dominique is the dominant personality in France, but after Karol lures her to Poland, their roles reverse and she becomes the needy loser. Is it the natural difficulty a foreigner faces when dealing with the court system of a strange country? Or is it something more mystical, about drawing strength from one's native soil? (As opposed to Blue, which at least superficially celebrated the EU.)

The film certainly makes Poland look like a cold, dreary place, with rusted-out infrastructure apparently not renewed since WWII and a post-communist economy where only the corrupt survive.

Maybe next time I will figure out the ending: she's to be hung, then she'll climb up to heaven and they will be married there??