
The invisible thread of destinies.
Part-time model Valentine unexpectedly befriends a retired judge after she runs over his dog. At first, the grumpy man shows no concern about the dog, and Valentine decides to keep it. But the two form a bond when she returns to his house and catches him listening to his neighbors’ phone calls.
- 7.9
- 1994
- Released
- 1h 40m

Irène Jacob
Valentine
Jean-Louis Trintignant
The Judge
Frédérique Feder
Karin
Jean-Pierre Lorit
Auguste
Samuel Le Bihan
Photographer
Marion Stalens
Veterinarian
Teco Celio
Bartender
Bernard Escalon
Record Dealer
Jean Schlegel
Neighbor
Elżbieta Jasińska
Woman
Paul Vermeulen
Karin's Friend
Jean-Marie Daunas
Theater Keeper
Roland Carey
Dealer
Brigitte Raul

Leo Ramseyer

Nader Farman

Cécile Tanner

Neige Dolsky

Jessica Korinek

Marc Autheman
Michel (voice)
Juliette Binoche
Julie
Julie Delpy
Dominique
Benoît Régent
Olivier
Zbigniew Zamachowski
Karol Karol

Released
fr
$4,127,033.00
- #infidelity
- #judge
- #isolation
- #shadowing
- #english channel
- #geneva, switzerland
- #retiree
- #dog
- #surveillance
- #prediction
- #unlikely friendship
- #manifest destiny
- #love destiny
- #fashion model
- #empathetic
Reviews

Aspiring model "Valentine" (Irène Jacob) is driving home one evening when she runs over a dog. Luckily, it's not seriously injured and after a trip to the vet she repatriates it with the "Judge" (Jean-Louis Trintignant). A quick look around his home though and she realises that he is a snoop! He listens into all the private conversations of his neighbours, records their chats and their peccadillos

**A very good ending to Kieslowski's trilogy.** This is the last film in Krzysztof Kieslowski's “trilogy of colors”, and focuses on the unusual friendship between a young and beautiful catwalk model and an elderly retired judge who entertains himself by listening, illegally and without no one knows, the telephone conversations of the neighbors. Why? Out of sheer cynicism. He is a man alone, bit











