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??? This article originally appeared on VICE UK. In private, says Kechiche, Seydoux wept with joy. 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? Blue displays a keen awareness of the various relationships that make up our social structure: The mise-en-scne with Adle's schoolgirl friends provides a bristling backdrop of believable jealousy, intimacy and strife, while the push and pull of family expectations is touchingly represented in both the frank embrace of Emma's parents and the sad machinations Adle goes through to appease her own. She dreams of something more. All that means that we could love, lost, and love again.. The fact that Kechiche makes us so invested emotionally in these characters means that he should provide a payoff. I felt like a prostitute. Written by Jonathan Dix and Beck Goldsmith. That happens with Pedro Almodovars movies, The Skin I Live In or Volver. Blue is the Warmest Colour is quite extraordinary. "[44], Blue Is the Warmest Colour is also filled with visual symbolism. HI!! '', Both actresses had said similar things at Cannes, when the film was in its first heady rush of success. You are also agreeing to our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. 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"[50], Blue Is the Warmest Colour had its world premiere at the 66th Cannes Film Festival on 23 May 2013. 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. [88], Manohla Dargis of The New York Times called the film "wildly undisciplined" and overlong, and wrote that it "feels far more about Mr. Kechiche's desires than anything else". 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. Out of loneliness, Adle sleeps with a male colleague. But both of them had expected it to be hard. Change). Clementine is a junior in high school who seems average enough: she has friends, family, and the romantic attention of the boys in her school. We SHOULD know what happens to Adele. Adle's friend, the openly gay Valentin, takes her to a gay dance bar. Any future without the person who has transformed Adle's life, no matter whom she tries to fill her loneliness with, will be a hollow one. The shoot, supposed to take two months, took five. It also occurred to me how often I've wondered whether long-term relationships are really worth the hassle, given that the bad times and break-ups are such an ordeal. Adele realizes that she does not belong in this world of pretense and it breaks her heart she almost breaks down again in the corner just before Samir connects with her. Hi Hong, thank you for creating this wonderful space where we can process the intense feelings that this movie elicits. 3. We would spend hours talking about women and life; I also took painting and sculpting lessons, and read a lot about art and philosophy. In front of others, Adle grows, seeks herself, loses herself, and ultimately finds herself through love and loss. 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. She was joyful in marching against austerity, for LGBT rights with Emma, she took joy (and solace) in eating, her dancing was joyous, she took joy in her children, and there is even joy in the incredible relationship she had with her hair! It ended up pissing it down with rainEric Cantona scored twice and Chelsea lost 4-0. La Seydoux and Exarchopoulos Adele: I know what youre wondering: are we really slept together? I remember the first time I watched it, (on Netflix) cuddled up with my partner sharing a healthy snack of buttered popcorn and an xtra large hot fudge sundae (with peanuts!! Sometimes they worked for 18 hours a day, although on other days Kechiche announced they were just going to drink coffee and talk. One thing I appreciate about it after several viewings is those kettle drums that accompany Adeles retreating form. 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. It was also screened in the Special Presentation section of the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival on 5 September 2013. If he thinks Adele finds happiness, he should show it, since the rest of the film is about Adeles life and her ways of dealing with various problems. By the time they reached America, however, this reflective series of observations had been recast as fury. Nothing Maroh said could douse the critics' rapture, however. 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. 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Needless to say, I was pretty frustrated when the movie ended. I also noticed that foreign movies sometimes just ends the movie with some vagueness and leaves it to your interpretations and the directors want the movie to consume your minds for days on end. There should be a solution. Due to the films structure and due to common-sense notions about how humans actually operate, there shouldnt be an ambiguous ending. Speaking to IndieWire on the preparation for her role, Seydoux said, "During those ten months [before shooting] I was already meeting with him and being directed. 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. She tells Adle that she no longer loves her, but that their relationship was special and she will always have "infinite tenderness" for her. They described the experience as "horrible" and said they would not work with him again. It served as an intensifier for the tragedy. It wasn't the graphic sex scenes that made me uncomfortable, but how it forced me to confront my fear of heartbreak. If we were to use this logic, what's the point in enjoying anything? The way he treats us? I really like him as a director. What really happened on the Blue is the Warmest Colour set. Yes, it's a romantic clich, but the connection between the two characters is palpable and, as they fall in love, you can't help being reminded of how it feels to meet someone you really like: as though you are the only two people in the world. Blue Is the Warmest Colour ( French: La Vie d'Adle - Chapitres 1 & 2; French pronunciation: [la vi dadl apit ne d]) is a 2013 romance film co-written, co-produced, and directed by Abdellatif Kechiche and starring La Seydoux and Adle Exarchopoulos. [19], The issue of perspective was also addressed in a Film Comment review by Kristin M. Jones, who wrote, "Emma's supposedly sophisticated friends make eager remarks about art and female sexuality that seem to mirror the director's problematic approach toward the representation of women". ''Fine! Abdellatif records a lot of takes, so that you can let go.''. And all of this goes against the point of an ambiguous ending: If you make an ending ambiguous, make it ambiguous for a good reason! In the meantime, thanks for allowing me a soapbox for my rants, Hong. 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. 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?". The public feud between the Palme D'Or winners, however, was to have a few more twists. Finally, I recall when I had mumps in my early 20s. 3.It cannily reveals the charms and dangers of loving an artist. He also dodges an opportunity to clear the air on the correct interpretation because, again, he doesnt care. Performed by Jonathan Dix and Beck Goldsmith. Immediately after the Cannes premiere, a French film technicians' union criticised Kechiche for his ''disorganised'' approach to filming and for making demands on his crew that amounted to ''moral harassment'', a charge he denied. The two girls that confront Adele about whether she is a lesbian are the same two girls who coerced her into checking out Thomas, dating Thomas and having sex with Thomas. nicely written and I appreciate this blog cause you can say the same about Emma that you wished for Adele. At least for now, she has to turn her back on Emma, and face the world with a clean start. Someone comes up to Emma and says "what a pick up artist!". It took the fourth spot in its first weekend, which was seen as a "notably good showing because of its nearly three-hour length". Her relationship with Emma grows into more than just friends as she is the only person with whom she can express herself openly. 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''. Blue Is the Warmest Colour Jump to Edit Summaries Adle's life is changed when she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire and to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. Like optimism, thats not a realistic way to view the world, nor is it something that a group of people who need hope (the group he tried dedicating the film to in a weird move at Cannes) should see or need to see. "[99] While praising Kechiche's originality, calling his adaptation "coherent, justified and fluid a masterstroke",[100] Maroh also felt that he failed to capture the lesbian heart of the story, and disapproved of the sex scenes. The strength of this connection radiates off the screen, and the sex scenewhile explicitis necessary to illustrate the passion between the two. 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. 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. Then I remembered that this was a film, too. I lost a load of weight and my head felt like a giant, pulsing boulder. [54] In the U.S., it was rated NC-17 by the Motion Picture Association of America for "explicit sexual content". Adle is happy with her job as a kindergarten teacher but has not moved on: she is still deeply in love with Emma. I wrote that I was pretty frustrated, but I thought it was realistic, and that is in the sense that its reality. See Nos. Someone comes up to Emma and says what a pick up artist! Adele watches this situation from a few feet away. Live For Today. Although Blue is the Warmest Color was a great triumph at Cannes two years ago when you and La Seydoux shared the Palme d'Or, it became almost immediately controversial. [74], In The Daily Telegraph, Robbie Collin awarded the film a maximum of five stars and tipped it to win the Palme d'Or. "[75] Writing for The Guardian, Peter Bradshaw added that "it is genuinely passionate film-making" and changed his star rating for the film to five out of five stars after previously having awarded it only four. She sleeps with Thomas, a boy from school, but is ultimately dissatisfied and ends their relationship. Despite the critical praise the movie received in 2013, its release was somewhat overshadowed by controversies over its production. 5.It captures the primal essence of first love in all its exquisite rapture. [4] Further criticism targeted disrupted working patterns and salaries. [65][66], The film had a limited release in the U.S. and it grossed an estimated $101,116 in its first weekend ending 25 October 2013, with an average of $25,279 for four theatres in New York City and Los Angeles. We dont know what the future holds for Adele, for Emma and for their relationship; it is frustrating for me . An incredibly intense and realistic one, but a work of fiction nonetheless. At Cannes, the film shocked some critics with its long and graphic sex scenes (although fake genitalia were used),[80][39] leading them to speculate that it might require editing before screening in cinemas. Even if it was unethical, it did make a film excellent and enough to win at Cannes. Adle's life is changed when she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire and to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. She was hitting me so many times, and [Kechiche] was screaming: 'Hit her! Even in the graphic novel one of Adeles friends help them talk things out. One Film Comment critic wrote, "As in Kechiche's earlier work, social class, and the divisions it creates, are a vital thread; he even changed the first name of the story's passionate protagonist from Clmentine to that of his actress, partly because it means 'justice' in Arabic. Written by Dennis Winslow, Robert J. Walsh , Ronn L. Chick. It cannily reveals the charms and dangers of loving an artist. A still from Blue is the Warmest Colour.Credit:Transmission Films. As she grows indifferent to her male classmates after a fumbled sexual experience, Adle finds herself filled with profound and unprecedented feelings--the unexpected result of a chance encounter with a mysterious blue-haired woman. Performed by studio musicians. He met teachers "who felt very strongly about reading, painting, writing" and was inspired to develop a script that charts the personal life and career of a female French teacher. Blue Is the Warmest Colour (French: La Vie d'Adle Chapitres 1 & 2; French pronunciation:[la vi dadl apit ne d]) is a 2013 romance film co-written, co-produced, and directed by Abdellatif Kechiche and starring La Seydoux and Adle Exarchopoulos. If you need to flag this entry as abusive. Kechiche thinks he amassed 250 hours of footage. "[92][93][94][95] After a test screening of selected scenes for a lesbian audience, one viewer said that it was "hot at the beginning, and then it got ridiculous when they kept switching sex positions every ten seconds" and that it was like an infomercial designed to address all the sexual acts lesbians can engage in. My questions: Do you think that this young woman is Emmas next Adele? The English-language edition was published by Arsenal Pulp Press in 2013. The two part with apologies and tears. ''Directors and actors being what they are, they like a good argument,'' wrote a commentator in a piece comparing the saga with other screen clashes. 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