Abstract

The objective of this study is to analyze the significance of the color blue in the film “Liberty is Blue”, by the Polish director and screenwriter Krzysztof Kieslowski and the imagetic result reached through the interface between cinema and arts. This is the first film of the Three Colors Trilogy.
In order to develop this analysis, semiotic concepts will be used, for the understanding of image as icon and color as symbol. The methodology consists in selecting images to analyze the meaning of the blue color in certain moments of the work where color gains relevance. The theoretical from of reference includes concepts of Charles Sandres Peirce, Lucia Santaella and Luciana Martha Silveira.