The Olive Trees of Justice

[Blue] depicts the nuances of irreconcilable inequalities, the web of local subtleties that both compose and miss the historically big picture.

Jules Rascheff’s black-and-white cinematography is stunning yet absolutely without mannerism, so that this film often feels like a documentary, an effect further aided by the use of mostly non-professionals in the cast.

Jarre's work here supplements Blue's dialectic docudrama with an elevating touch of ironic longing and nostalgia.

We get a poignant sense of nostalgia (complete with flashbacks to Jean's childhood) as well as glimpses of racial inequity, and a strong sense of the inevitable necessity of change.