Blue is the warmest color - 2013
"Love has no gender, take whoever loves you" - Adèle Exarchopoulos (Blue is the warmest color)
It was very bold of the Cannes Jury headed by Steven Spielberg to give Blue Is the Warmest Colour the Palme D’Or. After all, this is a film featuring explicit lesbian sex and made by a middle-aged male film-maker. It has been rated NC-17 in the US, a certificate that alarms and alienates mainstream American cinemas in equal measure. In its depiction of a young love affair, Blue Is the Warmest Colour is intimate to the point of being claustrophobic. Director Abdellatif Kechiche takes his audience oppressively close to his two protagonists, 15-year-old Adèle (Adèle Exarchopoulos) and her blue-haired lover Emma (Léa Seydoux.) The film-maker approaches his two young female leads with an anthropologist’s relish. It’s as if he believes that by observing them as intently as possible, he will be able capture their innermost feelings. For all the queasiness his voyeuristic, hyper-realist approach induces along the way, Kechiche has delivered a film of extraordinary richness and emotional complexity.
Initial release: October 9, 2013 (Quebec City)
Director: Abdellatif Kechiche
Awards: Palme d'Or, César Award for Most Promising Actress, more
Languages: English, French
Screenplay: Abdellatif Kechiche, Ghalya Lacroix
Actors: Adèle Exarchopoulos, Léa Seydoux ...
Here's some scenes from the movie
Adele's and Antoine:
Adele started a relationship with Antoine. Things didn't go well. She was not sure about her feeling to him since the beginning. Adele only wanted to satisfy her sexual needs (same for Antoine). And without love they couldn't keep things going as it should be. Adele meeting Emma: Just before meeting Emma, a girl (friend of Adele) kissed adele. The thing here is that that kiss had a different impact on the two girls. Adele liked it, but her partner didn't. In the few weeks coming after that, Adele met Emma and they both felt in love. Some scenes i won't talk about that didn't affect on the movie upcoming events but would help the watcher to understand each character's personalities.
Break up :
While watching the movie, you will love the couple. And even that we didn't expect their separation. But there it happens. And the reason is absolutely not Adele's cheating on Emma. I think the reason was Emma. Emma didn't love her partener as much as Adele loved her. Emma wanted to go back to her ex, Lise.
They met again :
So somehow she contacted her, and they met. Trying to act normal, both of Adele and Emma tried hard to hide their true feelings, and to avoid talking about the past. But their effort was not enough. Which lead us to an amazing and emotional scene. Love hurts. That's what Adele's life is about now. She spent a long time struggling with loneliness. Missing Emma.
The end: Emma invited Adele to her painting's show. So they tried to act normal again, and hide their feeling, and all that. But the problem here, is that Emma was not hiding anything. She now consider Adele as a good old friend, not an ex-lover. Feeling ignored and lost, Adele leave the museum, making the movie more and more tragic. But sometimes that's all you need to turn the page ; A Tragedy.
