White.

WHITE, (From Miramax Films) which won its director, Krzysztof Kieslowski the Silver Bear as Best Director at this year's Berlin Film Festival, is an excellent picture, and not an easy one to like. It is a movie full of symbolism and drama, a love story without real love, a commentary on a society that has no pity. It is also a film that makes a deep impact, with images that stick to the eye and situations that are often bizarre.

White, part of a Kieslowski trilogy, is superbly directed and admirably acted by Zbigniew Zamachowski and the stunning Julie Delpy. Zamachowski plays Karol a down-and-out Polish hairdresser in Paris who, after breaking up with his wife, has himself smuggled to Poland in a suitcase. But the case is stolen, Karol is beaten up badly but survives and in fact manages to become well-to-do. He fakes his death to bring Julie to Poland. They discover they still love one another though she is now in prison accused of killing him.

It's an odd black comedy, and a very European one, with a number of explicit sex scenes and a highly dramatic sequence when Karol agrees to kill a friend for a large amount of money. He first fires a blank, the friend changes his mind, and the two go out to celebrate life. Kieslowski is obviously a major talent, and this French-Polish production proves it. Though there will be some who will not be enchanted with the dark mood of the picture, and the downbeat quality of the people in it, it's still great entertainment.