La Répétition tracks an intimate on-and-off friendship between a stage actress Nathalie and her doormat disciple Louise. When they meet again after 10 years of departure, their intimacy is renewed, desires swirled. Louise even neglects her husband and her dental profession to become Nathalie's attaché, living vicariously through her stage career. An intense, theatrical piece with excellent acting, selected for the Cannes Film Festival Competition.

寄宿學校校長長期虐待妻子與情婦，兩個女人決定殺他死，棄屍校內泳池。翌晨卻發現屍體不見了，死者的衣服被乾洗妥當送回兩女手上。有人想承人之危，還是男人根本未死？驚嚇程度與佈局之精細，絕對可被列入希治閣陣營和級數。影片雖已面世五十年，但結局的「扭橋」安排今天看來仍然精采，更直接影響了早前的《大膽的愛，小心的偷》，以及O先生的《泳池謀殺案》。多年前荷里活也翻拍這部經典，由莎朗史東主演，但成績當然遠遠不及原作！

Legend has it that Henri-Georges Clouzot beat out Alfred Hitchcock to secure the rights to this novel, which proved to be a veritable blueprint for an icy masterpiece of murder, mystery, and suspense. Véra Clouzot plays the sickly wife of a callous headmaster of a provincial boarding school going to seed, and the commanding Simone Signoret is the headmaster's mistreated mistress. Together they plot and carry out his murder, a brutal drowning that director Clouzot documents in chilly detail, but the corpse disappears, and a nosy detective starts sniffing around the grounds as threatening notes taunt the women. Clouzot's thriller is as precise and accomplished a work as anything in Hitchcock's canon, a film of grueling suspense and startling shocks in an overcast, gray world of decay, but his icy manipulations lack the human dimension and emotional resonance of the master of suspense.

奇斯洛夫斯基《藍白紅三部曲》的第一部曲，以法國國旗的顏色探索自由、平等、博愛的議題。一場交通意外，奪去了茱莉丈夫及女兒的牲命，留下她躺在醫院療傷。身體復原，但身心還未康復，丈夫與女兒的思憶，就如那片幽鬱的藍、那厥《歐洲統一》交響樂，突如其來得令她招架不來。茱莉愈是忘記，愈不易忘記。奇斯洛夫斯基貴為大師的代表作，精簡的電影語言，暗場交代了情事，最後重獲感情上的自由，全因當初錯用情。威尼斯最佳電影、最佳女主角、最佳攝影得主，實至名歸。

The first out of Kieslowski's trilogy on Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity, the three colors of the French flag. A car accident claims the life of a composer and his daughter, leaving only the wife, Julie, survived. Though physically recovered after a long-term treatment, Julie lives with her heart shattered, struggling with the memories of her husband and daughter. Kieslowski attaches an almost subconscious significance to the color blue, but primarily he focuses on Binoche's subtle shifts in emotion flicker. The picture may be more enigmatic than the follow-ups White and Red, but Binoche's quiet, heartbreaking presence becomes spellbinding; her performance won the best actress prize at the Venice Film Festival in 1993.