Benoît Régent

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.

In Berlin, in the near future, a police detective (Jan Niklas) connects a sudden rash of suicides to advertisements for a holiday club which feature an American model (Jennifer Beals). The club is owned by the sinister Dr M (Alan Bates) and it soon becomes clear that the doctor is experimenting with subliminal mind control. An update of the classic Fritz Lang thriller.