Red (1994)

9.5 Popcorn boxes

The final installment of the Three Colors Trilogy (the other two, 'Blue' and 'White'), director Krzysztof Kieslowski gives us a strong installment of the series.

Valentine Dussaut (Irene Jacob) while driving destracted, hits and injures a dog.  She tracks down the dog's owner, Joseph Kern (Jean-Louis Trintignant) but he gives the pregnant dog to Valentine.  They begin a platonic relationship, with both learning much about each other, life, and relationships.

It's a complicated plot, but suffice it to say, everything is mainly tied up at the end, bringing to a conclusion all three films of the trilogy.

This was Kieslowski's final film, unfortunately.  He died during open-heart surgery just two years after the film.  We will never know what other masterpieces he had in him.

Rated R for sexual content