Three Colors: Red

Juliette Binoche delivers one of her most revelatory performances as a woman attempting to start a new life unencumbered by emotional attachments in the first film of Krzysztof Kieślowski’s landmark trilogy.

In the lone comedy of his famed Three Colors trilogy, Krzysztof Kieślowski creates a caustic allegory of post-communist Poland, centered around a hapless Polish immigrant determined to get back to his homeland.

In one of her most complex works, Yvonne Rainer concocts a genre-busting, autobiographical meta-film that interrogates memory, gender dynamics, and the reductive manner in which women’s stories are too often told.