The French film Bleu is about a woman named Julie who has to cope with the tragic lose of her husband and daughter. This is traumatizing for Julie because she was also in the accident. In the beginning of the film when Julie is in the hospital she tries to overdose on pills but is unable to do so because she could not swallow them. When Julie is release from the hospital she sales her house she had in Paris and moves away without telling anyone. Julie does this because she wants to disassociate herself from everything in her past.

Julie even throws away the unfinished musical peace of her husband who is a famous music composer. This is significant because the musical peace symbolized European Unity. In the movie Julie is suspected of composing her husbands work. Eventually Julie is forced to face her past when she runs into Oliver a friend and former assistant of her husband. Oliver is also a composer and is secretly in love with Julie. In the film Oliver makes a television announcement stating that he complete Julie’s husbands work. As the movie progresses Julie discovers that her husband was having an affair with another woman. Julie tries to make it her obligation to stop Oliver from composing her husbands work and finding her husbands mistress. 

Julie tracks down Sandrine (her husbands mistress) and finds out that she is pregnant with his child. Finding out what her husband did to her encouraged Julie to begin a relationship with Oliver and finish her husbands late work. The two work together and end up finishing the piece. The films ends with the European piece being played and it showing the people affected by her work. I believe that the theme of this film is to never leave your past behind you. 

Although people may go through bad things in life you shouldn’t try to avoid the situation. I strongly believe that if you learn to work out your issues it will eventually make you a better person. Another theme that this movie could possibly have is to enjoy your life no matter what. In the film Julie could not enjoy her life because she was miserable. Losing a loved one is hard but people should try to remember the good memories that they had with that person. In conclusion, I really enjoyed watching this film. It was a very different film to watch because of the storyline. I also enjoyed the different music that was played throughout the film. Watching this movie made me think of what would I do if I ever lost someone close to me like Julie did.