It is the first film to have the Palme d'Or awarded to both the director and the lead actresses, with Seydoux and Exarchopoulos joining Jane Campion (The Piano) and later Julia Ducournau (Titane) as the only women to have won the award. My mind also occasionally returns to 1994a youthful, more optimistic time in my lifewhen my dad took me to watch Chelsea vs. Manchester United in the FA Cup Final. '"[27][30][31], La Seydoux was cast as Emma ten months before principal photography began. Samir discusses America with Adle while the others discuss sex, and the two become friends. Not plot. The thrilled threesome were pictured on the red carpet kissing and hugging. lesbian couple one chest other for a man.what happens when a lesbian couple cheat each other. Adle congratulates Emma on her success and, after a brief conversation with Samir, leaves. In Sight & Sound, film scholar Sophie Mayer suggests that in Blue is the Warmest Colour, "Like homophobia, the lesbian here melts away. At least for now, she has to turn her back on Emma, and face the world with a clean start. It makes no sense from a storytelling perspective and means his primary goal is to emotionally mess up his audience rather than make a film with intelligence and thought. A bubble of hot air forecast to arrive early . I didn't get beaten up, lose the cup final, or get a viral disease watching Blue Is the Warmest Color, but I'd be lying if I said seeing it wasn't one of my most painful, draining experiences I've ever been through. Blue Is the Warmest Color: How Much Sex Is Too Much Sex? Emma goes to a gushing young fan with a huge smile and long dark hair. She then went on to say how normal it felt, even when a model-maker came to make moulds for the silicone shields they wore over their genitals. Blue is the Warmest Color triumphantly revealed love in the extremes, both in its beauty and in its monstrosity. (LogOut/ Adle's friend, the openly gay Valentin, takes her to a gay dance bar. (if not then wasnt she evicted from her own house she cohabited with Emma?) Emma spends more time at the party with Lise. The fact that he omitted so much exposition means that theres no motivation for the characters to have the obviously-intense feelings they have. Is this true of the Blue winning team? Source: Tumblr posts and others indicated. By the end of September, after another triumphant outing at the Toronto Film Festival, Kechiche was telling the press the film should never be released because it was ''too sullied'' and it would be impossible for anyone to view the film ''with a clean heart and a watchful eye''. Similarly, I see the ending of BLUE as quite bad. I dont know if the love of my life is begging and crying in front of me that I am able to tell her I love her endless and then just walk away with a smile??? How far has Emma progressed through the course of the movie? Not according to him. He didn't just shoot on set, either. There was another round of interviews for Blue is the Warmest Colour in London before it opened in November. French director Abdellatif Kechiche's controversial, three-hour coming-of-age love story jumps from close-up to close-up of . Emma can handle more then one, lol! But the saga has left Kechiche feeling deflated. THE WARMEST COLOUR (LA VIE DADELE CHAPITRES 1 ET 2) France 2h59 - 2,35 INTERNATIONAL SALES WILD BUNCH Carole BARATON - cbaraton@wildbunch.eu Gary FARKAS - gfarkas@wildbunch.eu Vincent MARAVAL - ndevide@wildbunch.eu Silvia SIMONUTTI - ssimonutti@wildbunch.eu www.wildbunch.biz Phil SYMES : + 33 (0)6 09 65 58 08 Ronaldo MOURAO : + 33 (0)6 09 56 54 48 festival@theprcontact.com . We get our hearts shattered, fair or not, and we often live life wondering if our faults that let to our endless pain, is just that, reality. another journey.perhaps this one will be less fierce, less passionate, but, perhaps she will be happier.. In the movie it shows the progression of two characters who are go through pursuit of love, sex, and career ambition. ), ya, OK and maybe a wee bit of Rum as well,. As many have pointed out on this site, there is some comfort in knowing that the film created a strong bond and everlasting love between Lea and Adele. It is an extraordinary, prolonged popping-candy explosion of pleasure, sadness, anger, lust and hope, and contained within it although only just are the two best performances of the festival, from Adle Exarchopoulos and La Seydoux. I was also worried that I'd see something far more intense and real than any lesbian porn I'd encountered on my trawls of the internet, and thatas a heterosexual manI would somehow be eavesdropping. When her openly gay best friend takes her out on the town, she . [102][103][104] Kechiche dedicated the award to "the youth of France" and the Tunisian Revolution, where "they have the aspiration to be free, to express themselves and love in full freedom". His choices are disturbingly selective, and to me reveal that his ideas on how to deal with suffering and view life are totally messed up. Their relationship grows tense as they have little in common. Otherwise, its a meandering mess with no meaning whatsoever. We see her struggles and we see her attempts to work through them. He chases after her but goes in the wrong direction, while Adle walks off into the distance. She ordered lemon tart and when I saw the way she ate it I thought, 'It's her! It is the same accompaniment immediately prior to the iconic scene where she first sets eyes on blue-Emma, and this chapter of her life begins. In Brazil, as of 2014, Blu-ray manufacturing companies Sonopress and Sony DADC were refusing to produce the film because of its content. Three years later, the two meet at a restaurant. Now after seeing it several times I am cool with it. Jul Maroh, Ivanka Hahnenberger (Translator) Blue is the Warmest Color is a graphic novel about growing up, falling in love, and coming out. The site's critical consensus is: "Raw, honest, powerfully acted, and deliciously intense, Blue Is the Warmest Colour offers some of modern cinema's most elegantly composed, emotionally absorbing drama. [96] The depiction of scissoring was also debated. Hes trying to be a white knight for the character of Adele, and then distances himself from it because she has to deal with it on her own even though she probably cant. Frustration doesnt mean that for me as well, it just means that it got to me, and Kechiche was very successful into getting under everyones skin. Please try again later. It received a standing ovation and ranked highest in critics' polls at the festival. [85][86], Justin Chang, writing for Variety, said that the film contains "the most explosively graphic lesbian sex scenes in recent memory". [100] In December 2013, it received the Louis Delluc Prize for best French film. As Emma grows out of her relationship with Adle and their passion wanes, she removes the blue from her hair and adopts a more natural, conservative hairstyle. It had a limited release at four theatres in New York City and Los Angeles on 25 October 2013, and expanded gradually in subsequent weeks. It's about everyday people, and banal scenes like the family dinner at Adle's housefilmed with such care and intimate, close up cameraworkmade me think this could very easily be my life, and that the same question applies to both me and Adle: "Who wants to sit around risking nothing, feeling neither pleasure nor pain?". Contributors control their own work and posted freely to our site. Paulina Plazas wrote in IndieWire that throughout the film, bisexual erasure is "central to understanding Adle's particular sense that she does not belong as she comes of age. I just said it was hard. Through the eyes of Adle we experience the breathless excitement of first love and first physical contact, but then, inevitably, all the other experiences that make life the way it is All of these are beautifully documented". You are also agreeing to our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. With a distinction no less effective for being understated, Blue empathizes with what people navigating the closet must undergo while matter-of-factly airing the beauty of living openly. Adle also references Pablo Picasso a number of times,[47][48] who famously went through a melancholy Blue Period. While The Past further amazed me about Farhadi's recent work, I was let down by the winner of Palme d'Or Blue is the Warmest Color. So overwhelmed were the members of the Cannes jury that they decided to give the Palme D'Or not only to the director, but, in an unprecedented move, to the two actresses, Lea Seydoux and Adele Exarchopoulos, as well. [76][77] Stephen Garrett of The New York Observer wrote that the film was "nothing less than a triumph" and "a major work of sexual awakening". That was at the end of May. Seydoux, the elder of the two actresses at 28, was quoted at Telluride Festival as saying, to website The Daily Beast, that working on the film was ''horrible'' and that she had felt ''like a prostitute''. Were sorry, this feature is currently unavailable. When Adle and Emma first meet in a Lille bar there's an immediate energy and spark. [12][13] It received critical acclaim and was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film and the BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language. Simply put they are . perhaps years if you happen to be in Adeles shoes, or worse, Emma and somewhere along the way, we are either Adele, Emma or a combination of both. An interviewer for The Guardian saw Exarchopoulos greet Kechiche warmly in the corridor as they went to their respective interview rooms and asked whether the feud had been exaggerated. She dates men but finds no satisfaction with them sexually, and is rejected by a female friend who she does desire. I wrote that I was pretty frustrated, but I thought it was realistic, and that is in the sense that its reality. Kechiche shouldnt arbitrarily make the ending an exception to this trend. By entering your email and clicking Sign Up, you're agreeing to let us send you customized marketing messages about us and our advertising partners. Emma is in a committed partnership with Lise and helps raise Lise's three-year-old daughter. In truth, it isn't sex per se that makes "Blue Is the Warmest Color" problematic; it's the patriarchal anxieties about sex, female appetite and maternity that leach into its sights and sounds. You can sort of guess the ending but it just so abrupt, you are wondering if there was more ..but when the credits rollyou realized the movie is over. Director Abdellatif Kechiche takes his audience oppressively close to his. Despite the critical praise the movie received in 2013, its release was somewhat overshadowed by controversies over its production. Although this comes not from Kechiche himself but from Exarchopoulos, there have been racist jibes on the internet about an Arab persuading young French girls to take off their clothes. For him, Adele isnt an character that he cares about. '', All smiles: Lea Seydoux (left), director Abdellatif Kechiche and Adele Exarchopoulos in Cannes.Credit:AP. ''No, it was real, but it was not as big as it looks,'' she replied. Its like the ending of the series THE SOPRANOS, which ends abruptly with a black screen. (LogOut/ Even if it was unethical, it did make a film excellent and enough to win at Cannes. Adele watches this situation from a few feet away. The English-language edition was published by Arsenal Pulp Press in 2013. . By the time they reached America, however, this reflective series of observations had been recast as fury. I left in a flood of tears. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. He might as well have flipped everyone off. And eternal heartbreak in all its wrenching devasatation. Watching Blue Is the Warmest Color demands introspection and self-analysis. Casting director Sophie Blanvillain first spotted Adle Exarchopoulos and then arranged for her to meet Kechiche. [4] Seven hundred and fifty hours of dailies were shot. The film follows Adle (Exarchopoulos), a French teenager who discovers desire and freedom as an aspiring painter, Emma (Seydoux), enters her life. So much noise has surrounded the release of Abdellatif Kechiche's controversial Palme D'Or-winning film that several clarifying points may help potential viewers navigate the sound and fury. She meets Emma who is a free spirited girl whom Adle's friends reject due to her sexuality, and by association most begin to reject Adle. Whether Lise is her soul mate (I dont think so) or not, for the moment Emma is satisfied with it (satisfied . If you need to flag this entry as abusive. Out of loneliness, Adle sleeps with a male colleague. , This Is Not Lesbian Pornography: Blue Is The Warmest Color,Defended, What the Critics Are Saying AboutBlue Is the Warmest Colors SexScene, Aperu: Rencontre avec Adle Exarchopoulos et LaSeydoux, Cinema TV La Vie DAdle Blue is the WarmestColor, Interview de La Seydoux, Adle Exarchopoulos et AbdellatifKechiche. This article originally appeared on VICE UK. Adle is a high school student who is beginning to explore herself as a woman. In the years that follow, the two women move in together. She tells Adle that she no longer loves her, but that their relationship was special and she will always have "infinite tenderness" for her. 10 Video Games That Need a Live Action Adaptation. The swirl of hostility, accusations and counter-accusations, retribution and jeering from the wings that has enveloped Blue is the Warmest Colour, the French erotic epic that was the toast of last year's Cannes Film Festival, makes most of Hollywood's catfights look pale by comparison. I guess the pacing comes down to personal tastes, but I am relieved when it isnt apparent I a movie that the makers have just followed the script from that awful screenwriters manual. (The stars previously said the infamous sequence took . Also, if his intention is to show that Emma and Adele never meet again, then why leave clues that their feelings for each other are obviously stronger than any temporary feeling of duty they have now, showing that they wont be happy unless they have each other? Parents need to know that Blue Is the Warmest Color is a French drama with English subtitles that chronicles a high school girl as she matures emotionally and sexually over about 10 years. Editor and writer, not necessarily in that order. To me, she said: ''I don't know whether it has really changed me, but it's made me develop and grow. There was, for example . [52], The film was screened in more than 131 territories[53] and was commercially released on 9 October 2013 in France by Wild Bunch with a "12" rating. Then the backlash flipped into action. Then I remembered that this was a film, too. 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