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This is the first film of a trilogy (Three Colours Blue, Three Colours White, Three Colours Red) representing the French flag and the ideals of the French Revolution: liberty, fraternity, and equality. The main characters appear briefly in all three films, and all together in the close of the final film. In Three Colours Blue (Liberty) Julie (Juliet Binoche), survives a car accident that kills her famous composer husband, Patrice, and their little daughter, Anna. From this point, the film is about the interior of Julie—her mind, her experience, her self—as she comes to terms with her traumatic injury. Julie attempts suicide during her recovery, is unable to attend the funeral and watches it screened, nationwide, without any apparent emotion. She moves out of the family home taking a single object from the past, a blue glass mobile, seemingly cutting all her connections with her family and life of the past. Her husband's friend, Olivier, also a composer, declares his love for Julie, but she makes love to him and then coldly rejects him. Julie, who had had a part to play in her husband's compositions, destroys his last grand