A bittersweet black comedy that won its director, Krzysztof Kieslowski, the Best Director Award at the Berlin Film Festival. This middle segment to Kieslowski's `Three Colours' trilogy focuses on the misadventures of a Polish hairdresser who moves to Paris, loses everything he owns, including his beautiful French wife, and is spirited back to his native Warsaw in a suitcase to discover a changed country where everything can be bought and sold. Not as stylish as the other films in the series, its 'colour' motif is less successfully carried through and the plot is quite difficult to follow: kudos to anyone who can say exactly why the hero ends up destitute again at the end. Look out for characters from the first film, including the heroine played by Juliette Binoche. Both she and Julie Delpy, who stars here, cross paths in the final segment.