review film blue is the warmest color

Thismise en scene may be unsubtle but it beautifully and simply conveys the class divides that are hinted at throughout the film. Blue is the Warmest Colour is a difficult film to pigeonhole. It's a tragic romance, it's a coming of age drama; it's a film about sexual awakening; and it is an examination of modern France and its socio Review Blue Is The Warmest Color PLOT: Adèle (Adèle Exarchopoulos) is a teenaged-girl who feels curiously unfulfilled by her flirtations with the boys in her high October 28, 2013 BlueIs the Warmest Color 2013 ½. 26. This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth. starvengers challenge movie. AJ is using Letterboxd to share film reviews and lists with friends. Join here. Share this review. AbdellatifKechiche's La Vie d'Adèle, Chapitre 1 & 2 has been retitled Blue Is the Warmest Colour for its international release. The original French title is the more accurate: this is a film of two halves. Referring to the 'before' and 'after' of a lesbian relationship in the life of protagonist Adèle, the title could also refer to the two films that have been awkwardly intertwined. Les Belles Rencontres Se Font Partout. One of the most talked about entries at this year’s Cannes Film Festival had exploded as somewhat of a surprise after its initial screening — and for fine reason. Blue is the Warmest Color translated from La Vie D’Adele chapters 1 et 2 is a vivid portrait of the ever-changing seasons of love, from the first kiss to the final goodbye. Adapted from a French graphic novel Blue Angel and directed by Tunisian filmmaker Abdellatif Kechiche, it’s a film which chronicles the experience of an adolescent girl as she navigates life from high school and blossoms into a young adult with her first job as a kindergarten teacher. In between, she experiences the trials and tribulations associated with growing up, including dating and discovering your own sexuality. Treated with delicate care and nuanced details, Blue is the Warmest Color is one of the most sensually provocative and intimate films of the year, a work that is sure to resonate with audiences for some time to come. The plot revolves around the life of Adele — played brilliantly by relative newcomer Adèle Exarchopoulos — whose routine life, at 15, consists of going to school and gossiping with friends about their crushes. At this young age, Adele doesn’t feel the need to question the norms of society girls date boys and that’s that. But after hooking up with one of the most popular guys in school, she realizes there is something missing in this intimate equation. Her desires are absent in the face of what her classmates expect to be the perfect guy for her, confusing her own identity as, late at night, she contemplates what could be wrong. Everything changes when a chance encounter leads Adele to meet a blue haired girl Emma — given life by Léa Seydoux in a hypnotically enigmatic performance — who will change her life trajectory forever. As their relationship blossoms, Adele’s sense of desire is unleashed in the passionate moments they share together. It’s difficult to discuss Blue without mentioning some scenes of intense and graphic lesbian sex that echo throughout. While it may be shocking for more conservative viewers, these moments of intense passion are essential for the film and a privilege for audiences — in their length, they allow viewers to explore levels of intimacy in an unprecedented manner. It helps define both characters’ connection to one another, and Kechiche is careful not to exploit these moments, instead letting the camera observe from a detached point of view. As Adele and Emma start to become a serious item, eventually moving in together, they face the problems and challenges that any couple face, straight or gay. In between conversations about philosophy and art Emma is an accomplished painter, their mutual desire for one another further develops their personality, giving a rich and complete portrait to each woman’s life. Coupled with intimate directorial garnishes, such characteristics give a sense of jumping into the life of another; it’s a wonder to behold. Themes of romance are treated with equal attention as those of breaking up, and the longing for someone you still have affection for is a palpable and relatable emotion to anyone who’s been hopelessly in love. Despite its three-hour runtime, the film never languishes in its pace, with a script that constantly keeps viewers drawn to characters as if they were brand-new. Reminiscent of the raw emotional power akin to the Dardenne brothers, there is also a layer of socioeconomic conflict paired alongside the emotional hurdles both Adele and Emma face. Kechiche’s direction is subdued yet penetrating, and it seems near-impossible not to be moved by both the joy and pain in Adele’s experience. Affecting and powerful in its portrayal of love, Blue is the Warmest Color is an epic ode to the enduring affection which overwhelms when we find that special someone. Blue is the Warmest Color was awarded the Palme d’Or, and will be released later this year by Sundance Selects. Watched Mar 09, 2020 GeraldLovesCinema247’s review published on Letterboxd Led by two extremely powerhouse performances, resoundingly astute direction, immaculately stunning cinematography, and most of all, an emotionally-striking screenplay, Blue is the Warmest Colour is powerfully moving cinema at its finest. Wow, what a tour of heavily sensual emotions this film seriously is. This highly acclaimed French romance drama remains one of the best movies made in the last 10 years. It definitely ranks up there as one of most purely well-refined works of art among the LGTBQ genre. From start to finish, Blue is the Warmest Colour is an equally effective coming of age story as it is a film about heartbreak and betrayal. Based off of the graphic novel of the same name, the movie chronicles the life of a French teenager, named Adéle, who meets and falls in love with aspiring female painter, Emma. The first part acts as the birth and growth of their undeniable chemistry, while the second half is dedicated to the decay of their relationship. Through this relationship, Adele finds her personal freedom and liberation from the longing of true love she's been struggling with. Adéle Exarchopoulos and Léa Seydoux are undoubtedly amazing together on-screen. Not only do they have great chemistry together, but both of them exchange such raw emotional depth between each other that you really do forget that these are characters on the-screen. They did an outstanding job of portraying this relationship with pure realism and naturalism. As the movie progresses, you can notice all of the subtle details that likely paved the way for their eventual breakup. On top of all of that, the sex scenes in this movie are indescribably charging and filmed with uncompromising tenacity. Blue is the Warmest Colour doesn't convey any false pretenses about its characters or its subject matter. It's a movie that deals with lesbian romance and artistic aspirations in such a profoundly honest way. The cinematography is impressively beautiful to gaze at, especially the close-up shot of Adéle floating on the beach as the water caresses her face. Oh man, I can't recommend Blue is the Warmest Colour enough. It more than earns the praise it has accumulated over the Rating Block or Report The colorful, electrifying romance that took the Cannes Film Festival by storm courageously dives into a young woman’s experiences of first love and sexual awakening. Blue Is the Warmest Color stars the remarkable newcomer Adèle Exarchopoulos as a high schooler who, much to her own surprise, plunges into a thrilling relationship with a female twentysomething art student, played by Léa Seydoux. Directed by Abdellatif Kechiche, this finely detailed, intimate epic sensitively renders the erotic abandon of youth. It has captivated international audiences and been widely embraced as a defining love story for the new century. Special Features New digital master, approved by director Abdellatif Kechiche, with surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrackTrailer and TV spotNew English subtitle translationPLUS An essay by critic B. Ruby RichNew cover by Sarah Habibi BLU-RAY EDITION FEATURES New digital master, approved by director Abdellatif Kechiche, with surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrackTrailer and TV spotNew English subtitle translationPLUS An essay by critic B. Ruby RichNew cover by Sarah Habibi Cast & Credits Adèle Exarchopoulos Adèle Léa Seydoux Emma Salim Kechiouche Samir Mona Walravens Lise Jérémie Laheurte Thomas Alma Jodorowsky Béatrice Aurélien Recoing Adèle’s father Catherine Salée Adèle’s mother Fanny Maurin Amélie Benjamin Siksou Antoine Sandor Funtek Valentin Director Abdellatif Kechiche Screenplay Abdellatif Kechiche Screenplay Ghalya Lacroix Freely adapted from Le bleu est une couleur chaude, by Julie Maroh, Èditions Glénat Director of photography Sofian El Fani Sound Jérôme Chenevoy Editors Albertine Lastera Editors Camille Toubkis Editors Jean-Marie Lengellé Editors Ghalya Lacroix Supervising sound editor Patrick Hubard Sound editors Fabien Pochet Sound editors Roland Voglaire First assistant director Roxane Guiga Production manager Diana Angulo Produced by Alcatraz Films Produced by Olivier Thery Lapiney Produced by Laurence Clerc Executive producers Quat’Sous Films Executive producers Abdellatif Kechiche Executive producers Wild Bunch Executive producers Vincent Maraval Executive producers Brahim Chioua Three Reasons Blue Is the Warmest Color Mike Portnoy’s Top 10 Mike Portnoy is one of the founding members of Dream Theater. He is currently the drummer in the Winery Dogs, Twister Sister, Transatlantic, Flying Colors, the Neal Morse Band, and Metal Allegiance. — Feb 27, 2017 The BFI’s List of the Best LGBT Films of All Time For the past thirty years, the British Film Institute has been honoring the best in contemporary and classic LGBT cinema from around the world, with its annual BFI Flare London LGBT Film Festival. In celebration of the festival’s three-decade anni… Austin Garrick’s Top 10 The Toronto-based songwriter-producer Austin Garrick is one-half alongside vocalist Bronwyn Griffin of the electronic pop duo Electric Youth, whose full-length debut album, Innerworld, was released in September 2014 by Secretly Canadian/Last Gang R… — Sep 29, 2014 You have no items in your shopping cart 22/05/2013 - Adèle Exarchopoulos and Léa Seydoux smash the barriers of social romanticism in the exceptional feminine "love story" by Abdellatif KechicheAdèle Exarchopoulos and Léa Seydoux in Blue Is the Warmest Colour"Touching the very essence of the human being" is the challenge of "cinéma vérité", or cinema revealing the candid truth, always confronted by Abdellatif Kechiche in a career already rich in rewards after only four feature films. But with Blue is the Warmest Color [+see also trailerinterview Abdellatif Kechichefilm profile], in competition at the 66th Cannes Film Festival, the filmmaker clearly soars to an even higher altitude by getting as close as possible to the hearts and skins of two young women from very different social backgrounds. Weaving a hyper-sexed romantic work of extraordinary breadth without ever departing from his stylistic line giving priority to life and the intensity of the sequences, nor renouncing profound reflection and social analysis, the director offers the almost unknown Adèle Exarchopoulos and rising star Léa Seydoux two enormous roles which they assume with incredible audacity. But beyond these performances nourished by the embraces, laughter and tears of youth, the film asserts itself as an ode to the simplest form of freedom and the most difficult to achieve, that of assuming who we are, without having to justify it. "What's my gender?" For the adolescent, questions about identity are ultra-relevent and Adèle Adèle Exarchopoulos, a school-girl from a working-class family in the suburbs of Lille, is of an age when the appetite for love and sexuality awakens. With a fondness for literature in an environment in which culture is virtually non-existent in conversations among girl-friends and at family dinners lulled by TV, she sooon feels uncomfortable in an adventure with a boy. For her life has changed since she happened to come across a girl with blue hair who unexpectedly invites herself into her erotic dreams. Somewhat lost in her desires and in a more or less unconscious search for this apparition, she is soon to find her and overcomes the aggressiveness of some of the school-girls "You'll never lick my pussy, you dirty dyke" before launching herself into the unknown territory of feminine homosexuality. Emma Léa Seydoux, the girl with blue hair, in her fourth year at the Fine Arts Academy, falls for Adèle's charm, gently keeping her at a distance at first "I'm one of those grown-ups who hang around in gay bars. I think we're rather different" before yielding to the alchemy of torrid bodies. Then begins the life of a couple that will gradually be fractured over the years by their vocations Adèle a teacher, Emma a designer and the gap that separates them in terms of ambitions, original backgrounds, education and their ways of envisaging happiness… While remaining true to the fundamental corpus the discovery of passion between women of the comic strip Le bleu est une couleur chaude on which he based his film, Abdellatif Kechiche evacuates almost all the aspects of lesbian militantism and the tragic dimension from his adaptation, in order to concentrate more fully on the sociological theme so dear to him the social gap and "melting pot" territories body to body, the pleasures of shared eating, demonstrations, parties and dancing, small classes in school etc.. His directing, which has become expert in the art of close-ups and movement delves deeply into the characters and examines the details of their feelings in long captivating sequences. The mastery and powerfulness of the sex scenes in particular go well beyond their pornographic dimension, simply offering portrayals of palpitating nature in its simplest expression. A transmutation also achieved by the transmission of numerous references in ideally rendered scenes of daily life, including The Life of Marianne by Marivaux the tale of a woman advancing towards and against everything, Antigone the "little" heroine one day deciding to say no and Sartre's Existentialism and Humanism. A whole which makes Blue is the Warmest Color a very great film, achieving spontaneous fusion between body and soul. Translated from French When Abdellatif Kechiche's lengthy and "freely inspired" adaptation of Julie Maroh's graphic novel Le bleu est une couleur chaude won the Palme d'Or at Cannes earlier this year, its two lead actresses were officially recognised in the citation alongside the director, an unprecedented acknowledgement of the defining role of the key cast that flew in the face of the festival's longstanding love affair with the haughty tenets of auterism. Certainly the performances by Léa Seydoux already an important screen presence and newcomer Adèle Exarchopoulos are extraordinary. Their portrayal of a blossoming, fragmenting relationship is shot through with genuine grace and conviction even when the film itself descends into titled La vie d'Adèle, chapitres 1 & 2, Kechiche's raw love story traces the formation and disintegration of a relationship so powerful that it transforms the life of its coming-of-age heroine. Exarchopoulos is Adèle, struggling to come to terms with her sexuality amid a culture of homophobic abuse until she meets blue-haired Emma Seydoux, an artist with a forthright sense of self. After the inevitable culture clashes played out in juxtaposed dinners with their respective families and social mismatches Emma's artisan crowd are quietly condescending towards aspiring schoolteacher Adèle, their relationship grows, changes, falters, reawakens. At times it ceases altogether, leaving Adèle to battle on alone in the wake of insurmountable and self-inflicted through it all we never doubt that the love between them is real, that they are both caught in the throes of an unruly, intoxicating passion that occasionally threatens to engulf and overwhelm its premiere in Cannes, much attention has been paid to the film's divisively explicit sex scenes, with Maroh herself likening the "brutal and surgical display of so-called lesbian sex" to heterosexual porn that a gay audience would find "ridiculous", and concluding damningly "As a feminist and a lesbian spectator, I can not endorse the direction Kechiche took on these matters."Equally troubling are the cast and crew's tales of mistreatment on set, with both lead actresses variously telling the press that they wouldn't work with Kechiche again. As Seydoux says "In France, the director has all the power… and in a way you're trapped. Thank God we won the Palme d'Or, because it was horrible." Kechiche has responded by calling Seydoux an "arrogant, spoilt child", amid mutterings of legal action. All of which somewhat undermines the film's apparently open-minded attitude toward its leads, although it's a credit to Exarchopoulos and Seydoux that not even this cloud can overshadow the weighty achievements of their believably intense and emotionally draining performances.

review film blue is the warmest color