trilogy one, two, and three

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Has anyone seen these? Are they as good as they sound? I missed them at the film festival in SF and thought about seeing them when I was in the UK last week but as the third one wasn't out yet thought I'd just be setting myself up for disappointment. Any news on when they might hit DVD?

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Saturday, 6 December 2003 18:39 (twenty-one years ago)

five months pass...

revived; has anyone seen these (On the Run, An Amazing Couple, After the Life) yet? they are coming to the castro theatre in SF starting today. I don't have any illusions that they are the second coming of Blue, White, and Red, but I am a sucker for this kind of narrative construction.

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 21 May 2004 14:11 (twenty-one years ago)

They are VERY good. What's amazing about them is how your impression of a character is completely modified when viewing the other two films.

I saw it in the 2,1,3 order (Amazing Couple, On the Run, After the Life).

Definitely worth seeing! (Plus, Ornella Muti is still as hot as she was in Flash Gordon.

― BabyBuddha (BabyBuddha), Friday, 21 May 2004 14:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I've seen them. While I don't want to descend to some kind of base level, I would have to agree about Ornella Muti.

but yeah, they are top. My favourite is the one about the urban guerrilla guy being on the run. One great thing is the way at one point in the third film, almost in passing, the events of the first are revealed in a completely new light.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Thursday, 27 May 2004 09:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Brilliant experience. '2' is a comedy and perhaps doesn't translate to Anglo-Saxon audiences so well, but it isn't that bad, and it's vital to the enterprise as a whole. '1', the thriller, is the real 'stand-alone' film, '3' works alone to a lesser extent but you have to see all three, because each film modifies the other.

The DVD has some sort of extra in which bits of the three films are re-edited into 'chronological' order (they all take place over the same period). It sounds fascinating.

I actually prefer them to the 'Colours' trilogy, although to be honest this is one film, very tightly interwoved, in a way 'Colours' was not -- that was a trilogy, this is a triptych (only spelt right). It was on in London at the end on 03, but didn't really make the provinces.

― Enrique (Enrique), Friday, 28 May 2004 07:42 (twenty-one years ago)

2 has the most Ornella Muti, therefore it is the best.

I prefer everything to the Colours trilogy.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Friday, 28 May 2004 09:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw it in the 2,1,3 order (Amazing Couple, On the Run, After the Life).

that was the order in France.

to be honest, I think it would be good if the films had been shown in Englishland with their titles rather than just numbers, as the order is a bit arbitrary.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Thursday, 3 June 2004 09:23 (twenty-one years ago)

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