Bay Area Premiere "Blue offers for our delectation a plain blue screen, no more no less, to contemplate. And it...is riveting. On one level, Blue is a startling piece of abstract art in a medium that has always shied away from modernism....(The French painter Yves Klein's) monochromatic plain blue canvasses and special, patented shade of 'International Klein Blue' sparked off this movie. Blue, in Blue, stands for Jarman's blindness (one of the ravages of AIDS); it enables a mystical introspection that moves between anxiety ('a blue funk') and serenity ('a delphinium-blue summer's day')....It's a tabula rasa onto which he projects his visions....(On the soundtrack) Jarman mingles music and fragments of poetry with memories of happier times and entries from a daily journal (these mix gallows humor and pathos, but never self-pity)....(The) subtext is the...struggle of one of cinema's strongest personalities to keep the light alive and...create from next to nothing a complete imaginative world."-Sheila Johnston, The Independent