Florence Pernel

An arthouse staple of the ’90s, the Three Colors films hold up some twenty years later as complex, emotionally resonant, and visually beguiling tales of contemporary Europe. The first part, Blue, is a story of death and rebirth that features a tour-de-force performance by Juliette Binoche.

A week before her wedding, Agathe Plichard, a pretty young woman of mixed race, is found drowned in the Creuse river. The police treat the case as an accident but her fiancé, Felix Bricourt, is convinced she was murdered.