Fine piece by the same filmmaker who did “White” and Red”. Indeed, this is the first of the trilogy. It follows the widow of a composer who, along with his daughter, are killed in a car wreck. Her struggle to overcome the emptiness of their loss and to confront the awareness of his affair that comes over time is truly moving. This is rather slow and contemplative piece set against the background of European unification and the struggle to create a concerto on the theme of unification. It speaks to the filmmaker as Pole: European and outsider in France and Europe, the lack of generational connection (distance of old and young), and of women acknowledging their own contributions (the wife, it turns out, may well have written some of her husband’s pieces). It lags in a couple of spots and, more importantly, ends in something of an uneven attempt at bringing things together, but it is a fine piece of work