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            After opening with a brief, seemingly irrelevant scene of a suitcase on an airport carousel, the story quickly focuses on a Paris divorce court where Polish immigrant Karol Karol (Zbigniew Zamachowski) is pleading with the judge (the same legal proceedings that Juliette Binoche's character Julie briefly stumbled upon in the previous film 'Blue'). Despite his difficulty in understanding French, Karol is made to understand that his French wife Dominique (Julie Delpy) does not love him. The grounds for divorce are humiliating: Karol was unable to consummate the marriage. Along with his wife, he loses his means of support (a beauty salon they jointly owned), his legal residency in France, and the rest of his cash in a series of mishaps, and is soon a beggar living on the streets. He only retains a 2-franc coin that he got as change from the phone while trying to speak with his now ex-wife.In a Paris Métro station, performing songs for spare change, Karol meets and is befriended by another Pole, Mikoaj (Janusz Gajos). While Karol has lost his wife and his property, Mikoaj is married and successful, he offers Karol a job consisting of killing someone who wants to be dead but does not have enough courage to do it himself. Through a hazardous scheme, Mikoaj helps him return to Poland hidden in the suitcase shown at the beginning of the film, which is later stolen by employees at the airport. The airport thieves, eager to find something valuable inside their stolen trunk, are angry when they open it and they find Karol inside. The thieves beat up Karol and leave him behind in a nearby garbage dump.Despite his mishap, Karol returns to working as a hairdresser with his brother (Jerzy Stuhr) whom he now moves in with. After a while, Karol, no longer content to working at his brother's salon, quits his job and sets up to make himself a pot of cash in newly capitalist Poland. Karol takes another job as as a bodyguard in a seemingly innocent cash exchange office. Mikoaj meets Karol in a Warsaw Metro tunnel for the execution of the "suicide", it turns out to be that Mikoaj is the intended victim and asks Karol to kill him. Karol shoots a blank into Mikoaj's chest and asks him if he really wants to go through with it as the next bullet is real. Mikoaj refuses and is able to feel alive again. Using his position as a deceptively foolish bodyguard, Karol spies on his bosses and discovers their scheme to purchase different pieces of land that they knew were going to be targeted by big companies for development and resell for large profits. Karol beats them to it, and then tells his ex-bosses that if they kill him all his estate shall go to the Catholic Church, and they are therefore forced to purchase all the land from him. With the money he gained from this scheme and with the payment from Mikoaj, the two go into business (of a vaguely defined but possibly illegal nature) together.Karol becomes ruthlessly ambitious, focusing his energies on money-making schemes while learning to speak French and brooding over his wife's abandonment. He uses his new financial influence in a world where, as several characters observe, "you can buy anything" to execute a complex scheme to first win back Dominique, and then destroy her life.Karol takes his revenge against his ex-wife by faking his own death after which she shows up for his funeral. Karol then sneaks into her hotel room and has sex with her to prove his potency again. Then afterwords, Dominique is arrested and imprisoned for his 'murder'. The final image of the film shows Karol secretly visiting his wife in prison and staring at Dominique through the window of her prison cell. Karol then suddenly feels ashamed at himself for this revenge plot against his wife and openly cries... realizing that he must finally let go of her in order to move on with his own life.
    

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Dezha vyu

Big Animal

We Have a Pope


            In 2005, Wiktor's wife, Helena (Halina Golanko), has just died suddenly of a stroke in Poland. Wiktor (Zbigniew Zapasiewicz), the Polish ambassador to Uruguay, arrives to see her too late. An old Russian friend, Oleg (Nikita Mikhalkov), shows up briefly at the funeral for Helena. Wiktor wants to know if Oleg was involved with Helena. Oleg must travel to Uruguay and promises to tell Wiktor everything when they meet again.Wiktor is having trouble with his consulate staff back at the embassy. He knows the Consul (Remo Girone) is filing derogatory reports about him to Warsaw and returns to the embassy to find the Consul sitting at the ambassador's desk. The two have a heated exchange.Pressures on Wiktor mount. The embassy landlord is raising the rent and they must move. Additions were made to the property, but did the Polish government have permission? The paperwork has been lost and they face heavy fines. The Consul may be conspiring with the landlord.A second Consul (Andrzej Chyra), sponsored by Wiktor, arrives with his beautiful Russian wife, Radca (Jerzy Stuhr). The Consul fails to detect kilos of cocaine hidden in the casket of a Polish man shipped back to Poland; more bungling by the Polish diplomatic staff. Warsaw sends out inspectors. They are also concerned about closing a deal with Uruguay for the purchase of helicopters.Oleg arrives in Uruguay to help win the helicopter contract for Russia. Wiktor catches Radca making copies of documents and accuses her of spying for Russia. She denies it saying she is only trying to protect herself from her husband in the future. Oleg and Wiktor meet. Their long friendship is over. Oleg rips apart an old photograph and leaves it in his jacket pocket. Wiktor pilfers the partial photo and it shows Helena with her arm around Oleg.Wiktor's only friend, his dog, has cancer and Wiktor has the dog put down. Wiktor is despondent and disappears. No ones knows where he is. Oleg arrives at the embassy and gives the Consul the second part of the photograph.Wiktor spreads his wife's ashes in the ocean and serenely returns to the embassy. The Italians, not the Polish or Russians, have won the helicopter contract. Wiktor has heard the music of the spheres and locks himself away to play it on the piano. He now has the complete photograph that show the three old friends, Wiktor, Helena and Oleg. The embassy staff find Wiktor dead by the piano.
    

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