Trois Couleurs Bleu (Three Colors Blue)

After losing both her husband and daughter in a very tragic car accident, Julie Vignon (played by Juliette Binoche) finds herself starting her life over as a single woman. Along the way, she moves out of her old house and into her very own apartment. She meets Lucille, a prostitute (played by Charlotte Very), Olivier (played by Benoit Regent) , a man who knew her late husband and the man she ends up with, and her mother (played by Emmanuelle Riva), who resides in a retirement home for the elderly.
Julie's late husband, Patrice (played by Hugues Quester) was a famous European composer. He would travel all over Europe just to compose music. Often time, he would have to leave his family behind. At one occasion, while he was away on business, he met his mistress, fell in love with her, had sexual intercourse and now she is pregnant with his son. Apparently, Patrice and Julie' marriage was not all that great. I'm guessing that was a time where they were separated or maybe they were getting a divorce. I think they were divorced. Usually, when there's a divorce, tragedy is never far behind. Just pay close attention to the news and the people that are around you.
Not too long after the funeral, she started to have some very dangerous thoughts about taking her own life. She didn't feel that life was worth living and she didn't want to be alone. So she just isolated herself from the rest of the world. However, all of her emotions, thoughts and destiny was going to change.
One night while sitting alone in her old house, she decided to call Olivier and visit him over. So they engaged into a little small talk and she asked him to come right over. When he got there, he was all soaking wet because of the rain. First, she asked him to take off his coat. Then she asked him to take everything else off. That's when she removed her shirt (or sweater) off. Obviously she wasn't wearing any bra underneath it. Slowly he walked toward her, leaned up against her and the two of had sexual intercourse. The next morning, she woke up before him. She was all dressed up, packed her things in a box, embraced him and told him to lock up after he leave. As soon as she walked right out of the door, Olivier got up, put his pants back on, went to the window and screamed for her to come back.
As Julie is in downtown Paris, she her pays her realtor a visit. She wanted him to help her find another place to stay. It was not going to be easy, but he tried anyway. After that, she went to a cafe where she ordered and ate two scoops of ice cream along with some coffee (which she poured into the glass to eat with her ice cream) in a glass. And as she was sitting there, she saw a musician standing on up against a wall, playing his flute. The notes that he was playing were very familiar. When she left the cafe, she saw the same man lying on then floor. She asked him if he was alright. He lifted his head, grabbed the case that contained his flute and went back to sleep.
One night, while she was going to bed, she heard a noise coming from inside of the building. She stepped out of her house (wearing only her nightgown), the power went out, the door clothed behind her and she couldn't get back into her apartment. So she sat on top of the stairs and tried to get some sleep. She was able to close her eyes for a few seconds. When she opened them, she saw a strange man going into Lucille's apartment. I take it he was just another married me who was committing adultery with his mistress. And in this case, Lucille is that mistress.
At the end of the film, Julie became more opened to people. Her whole outlook on life kept improving every minute. She really started to change when she met and got to know her late husband's mistress. She saw that the woman was pregnant and asked if the baby was Patrice. She said yes and she said that it is boy. She asked if the woman picked out a name for him. The woman said no and Julie told her that he should be named after his father.
As I was sitting there, watching this movie, I thought of some possibilities on how the director came up with the title of the film. There were some things in the movie that contained the color blue. For example, the blue candy that she was eating in her old house, the blue lamp, the blue water in the pool that she was swimming in. Not only that, but I think it was how she felt after her husband and daughter died. The notes on the music sheet were blue. On the French flag, the color blue means liberty and freedom.