Watching Blue Is the Warmest Color demands introspection and self-analysis. 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. Further themes are explored in Maroh's novel, such as addiction to prescription pills. Adele is confused about her sexuality after she breaks up with . You can't be scared of relationships just because of their potential to cause pain when they end. 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. The idea that two people who love each other that much can put each other through such pain really got to me. We see her struggles and we see her attempts to work through them. Kechiche appeals to the natural rhythms of a film to justify his editing choices, but I have no idea what that means. It makes no sense. Blue Is the Warmest Colour Ending Explained Blue Is the Warmest Colour Ending Explained Pin By Haniixz On Movies Blue Is The Warmest Colour Warm Colors Color Blue Is The Warmest Colour Review A Searingly Frank And Intimate Account The Independent The Independent Pin On Final Major 1 That an actress who grew up in Paris can be so resonant-expressive to a woman who grew up in Minnesota I find wonderous. He seems like a very sensitive individual, and his episodes of rage seem to reflect the very thing that fueled his film. Individual scenes were done dozens of times. Adaptation is always a process of transformation, so it's no surprise that Abdellatif Kechiche's movie version of Blue Is the Warmest Color didn't use Julie Maroh's graphic novel as a storyboard.. Now after seeing it several times I am cool with it. Viewers who try to parse the various roles the male characters are meant to play in lead Adle's life will discover that questions of sexual identity are irrelevant here. Life is much harder. 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. The way he treats us? [51] In August 2013, the film had its North American premiere at the 2013 Telluride Film Festival. Lesbian sexuality is one of the film's primary themes, as the narrative deals with Adle's exploration of her identity in this context. Whatever. It would have been nice if Beatrice came out of left field and swept a happy Adele away in her arms and also Emma perhaps having 2 lovers who know of each other. At 15, Adle (Adle Exarchopoulos) doesn't question: a girl goes out with boys. He brings the camera so close to the faces of his actresses that he seems to be trying to make their flesh more familiar to us than his own. La Seydoux's Emma is an irresistible monster -- a painter who lives and breathes her work, who falls passionately in love with her subjects but who can't sustain interest in anything she can't make use of in her art. Sometimes what I like to do is recall all my shatteringly painful life experiences. It's entirely concerned with the inner life and outer experiences of a girl. Simply put they are . 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''. [78], Andrew Chan of the Film Critics Circle of Australia wrote, "Not unlike Wong Kar-wai's most matured effort in cinema, Happy Together, director Abdellatif Kechiche knows love and relationship well and the details he goes about everything is almost breathtaking to endure. Were sorry, this feature is currently unavailable. To declare that there were times they wanted to give up, even that they wouldn't want to go through it again, is not an indictment. This post will be a little long, and a little in-depth, but Id really like to explain why. It follows them through multiple years and through separation. The distributor was struggling to reverse this situation. I don't mind that it was hard. A discussion about Blue is the Warmest Color winning the Palme d'Or. Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com. "[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. 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''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. In the same interview, Exarchopoulos recounted how the director drove them on during a scene of a break-up. [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. [18] She passes an older woman with short blue hair in the streets one day and is instantly attracted. This movie was considered controversial due to its erotic scenes and taboo storyline. [97][98], Jul Maroh, the author of the graphic novel upon which the film was based, said, "It appears to me this was what was missing on the set: lesbians. seriously?) The pacing is totally arbitrary, leaving Kechiche no reference but his unpredictable, chaotic, pessimistic gut. If we were to use this logic, what's the point in enjoying anything? Perhaps, there will be other women but, I have that type of trust in Emma that tells me she will continue to grow and create and be as kind as she can to whoever is in her life. Often, my go-to is the timewhile attending university in a grim coastal townthat I got my head kicked in outside a club by a balding, middle-aged thug in front of my then girlfriend. Adeles friends will help her through her problem, and probably talk with Emma about what she did to Adele. The fact that he omitted so much exposition means that theres no motivation for the characters to have the obviously-intense feelings they have. [71], More than 40 critics named the film as one of the ten best of 2013. Show More Super. Blue is the Warmest Colour is quite extraordinary. 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. 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. We don't want anyone with "baggage," and we don't want honest assessments from others about our flaws. In front of others, Adle grows, seeks herself, loses herself, and ultimately finds herself through love and loss. My head was split open and I had to go to the hospital, the physical pain accompanied by the humiliating realization that I'd been completely unable to defend myself. [85][86], Justin Chang, writing for Variety, said that the film contains "the most explosively graphic lesbian sex scenes in recent memory". Blue is the Warmest Color triumphantly revealed love in the extremes, both in its beauty and in its monstrosity. In Sight & Sound, film scholar Sophie Mayer suggests that in Blue is the Warmest Colour, "Like homophobia, the lesbian here melts away. Not plot. [9][10][11], At the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, the film unanimously won the Palme d'Or from the official jury and the FIPRESCI Prize. 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. [96] The depiction of scissoring was also debated. In fact I think it is Adeles love for life that makes her so vulnerable and so sensitive. 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. 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. 6.It understands the human condition. 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. Suffering. 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? And among the only people we didn't hear giggling were the potential guys too busy feasting their eyes on an incarnation of their fantasies on screen". In the sense that I want to see more and more of both of these characters, I hate to see this movie end, period. We are accustomed to getting what we want, how we want it and when we want it. 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