I thought of my parents, their terrible fights and eventual divorce, of my relationships and how it felt to hurt someone and be hurt by someone I loved. For three hours. We SHOULD know what happens to Adele. We are accustomed to getting what we want, how we want it and when we want it. Im wondering if you have any thoughts on this: In the final gallery scene, Emma leaves Adele after some brief small-talk to respond to a perspective buyers question. Emma agrees to see Clem at the beach and as they make love Clem has a heart attack (the beginning of the comic reveals Clem died, so my revealing she died is not a spoiler). He cares about the character of Adele, and wants her to be happy (maybe thats the reason for his strange dedication) but restrains himself from doing it more than he has. [49], Reviewer Spencer Wolff noted Adle's political stance, which changes as her life experiences change and reflect her alternating views: "Framed by black and Arab faces, Adle marches in a protest to demand better funding for education. "[21], One recurring thematic element critics and audiences identified is the division of social class and the exploration of freedom and love between the two central characters. The film, directed by Abdellatif Kechiche, a French director of Tunisian origin widely regarded as one of French cinema's small handful of masters, is the story of a great passion between two teenage girls. The director did not put any constraints on the narrative and we were absolutely spellbound by the amazing performances of the two actresses, and especially the way the director observed his characters and just let the characters breathe. Adle (Adle Exarchopoulos) is an introverted 15-year-old high-school student. Maybe he wants to make an continuation, that is something we wont know for sure, but only that Lea stated she would not work with him, so a continuation without her is pretty much nonsense. He could ''retrieve the young man I was at one point'', but he also wanted to mark the point of generational change. Change), You are commenting using your Twitter account. Now, Emma, the bohemian stranger, creeps up in Adle's dreams, haunting her late-night fantasies. In the sense that I want to see more and more of both of these characters, I hate to see this movie end, period. Abdellatif records a lot of takes, so that you can let go.''. That an actress who grew up in Paris can be so resonant-expressive to a woman who grew up in Minnesota I find wonderous. Hope isnt some faith-y thing that you appeal to in desperation. Adele mentions that he gets attached to his character and doesnt like to let them go because in the book that its based on, the character Clementine (Adele) dies from a heart condition (symbolizing a broken heart) stemming from her depression from her breakup with Emma. Blue is the Warmest Colour is quite extraordinary. The fact that Kechiche makes us so invested emotionally in these characters means that he should provide a payoff. [5] During its opening in France on 9 October 2013, the film debuted with a weekend total of $2.3 million on 285 screens for a $8,200 per-screen average. A better interpretation is, perhaps, this: He gave up, knowing that to go on would take even more energy from him, and possibly drive him, his cast, and his crew up the wall. Then the backlash flipped into action. HI!! Yet the film undeniably and searingly captures the branding power of great love, the alchemy between two people whose chemistry will always be explosive. It's entirely concerned with the inner life and outer experiences of a girl. With breakout performances the film follows the emotional love affair between two young women. They can stir feelings of happiness, sadness, excitement, hunger, or relaxation. When her openly gay best friend takes her out on the town, she . "[40] In a January 2014 interview, Seydoux clarified: "I'm still very happy with this film. French director Abdellatif Kechiche's controversial, three-hour coming-of-age love story jumps from close-up to close-up of . "[70] On Metacritic, which assigned a score of 90 averaged from 57 reviews, the film received "universal acclaim". His fascination and familiarity with the world of pedagogy, as shown here in Adle's touching reverence for teaching, is another notable characteristic". Emma is in a committed partnership with Lise and helps raise Lise's three-year-old daughter. I guess what Im trying to say, however badly, is that the films entire theme is a neurotic obsession with suffering. Is blue, indeed, the warmest colour? [14] Many critics declared it one of the best films of 2013.[15][16][17]. and so many more (it would be cool to see how much the full movie tracked with the book). ''How indecent to talk about pain when doing one of the best jobs in the world!'' By the time they reached America, however, this reflective series of observations had been recast as fury. 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. [51] In August 2013, the film had its North American premiere at the 2013 Telluride Film Festival. 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. Were sorry, this feature is currently unavailable. Emma spends more time at the party with Lise. Toward the film's end, when Adle desperately tries to seduce Emma in an empty bar, begging in vain to rekindle their sexual and emotional connection, it becomes ever clear that this film really isn't about sexual orientation. How far has Emma progressed through the course of the movie? This article originally appeared on VICE UK. Change), You are commenting using your Facebook account. He seems like a very sensitive individual, and his episodes of rage seem to reflect the very thing that fueled his film. The look on her face the first two times she sees blue Emma are so expressive that I can know (almost) exactly how she feels. ''I want to pay them tribute.''. You are also agreeing to our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. I remembered cowardly trying to justify past actions while exes criedor, in some cases, threw things at me. 3.It cannily reveals the charms and dangers of loving an artist. She possesses a real social awareness, she has a real engagement with the world, very similar to my own. He told French magazine Tlrama, "I think this film should not go out; it was too sullied", referring to the reports about his on-set behaviour. Nothing Maroh said could douse the critics' rapture, however. [72] In 2016, the film was named the 45th best film of the 21st century in a poll of 177 film critics from around the world. The film spends time filming conflicts, emotions, and feelings in great, gory detail. I'm not saying that negatively. Many people focused purely on the sex , labeling the film a gratuitous lesbian romp. The blue hair signifies the stages of Emma and Adele relationship. This is when Adele questions herself, her true self. Adele did mention that they filmed Adeles suicide but Kechiche decided not to use that ending. He makes you care about these characters and then drops them. As a cynic, I never thought I'd find myself writing this, but the main lesson I took from Blue Is the Warmest Color is to seize the day and be unafraid of intimacy. Is this true of the Blue winning team? 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. [37] Technicians accused Kechiche of harassment, unpaid overtime, and violations of labor laws. Emma and Adle kiss, but Emma withdraws, although she admits she does not feel sexually fulfilled. It was powerful and gripping in its honesty and fearlessness. It has very explicit sex with full nudity and graphic depictions of sex acts, mostly between two women, but one with a man also briefly shows an erect penis. [36], Upon its premiere at the 2013 Cannes Festival, a report from the French Audiovisual and Cinematographic Union (Syndicat des professionnels de l'industrie de l'audiovisuel et du cinma) criticised the crew's working conditions. Actually, not sure where you got that I like the ending. And I disagree about the pacing. Perhaps one of the most significant differences between the families is that Emma's is aware of their lesbian relationship, while Adle's conservative parents are led to believe the women are just friends. An incredibly intense and realistic one, but a work of fiction nonetheless. I agree with the almost universal that the ending was horrible . However, for all his claims about trying to capture life, he doesnt. She sleeps with Thomas, a boy from school, but is ultimately dissatisfied and ends their relationship. [32] Shooting took place in Lille, Roubaix, and Livin. Due to the films structure and due to common-sense notions about how humans actually operate, there shouldnt be an ambiguous ending. ''You can see that we were really suffering. Youre comments are always welcome on this blog and greatly appreciate by me, especially, and I am sure all the fans that stop by here appreciate it too. Please try again later. Part of what makes Blue so gripping is the nature of its mixed marriage between artist and non-artist (and working class versus privileged elite). [81][82][83][84] The judging panel, which included Steven Spielberg, Ang Lee, and Nicole Kidman, made an unprecedented move to award the Palme d'Or to the film's two main actresses along with the director. 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!! Its like the ending of the series THE SOPRANOS, which ends abruptly with a black screen. He himself has admitted to being pessimistic in interviews. Thats not how you make a film. That was at the end of May. The pacing is totally arbitrary, leaving Kechiche no reference but his unpredictable, chaotic, pessimistic gut. Thank you Hong for your efforts in making this available to us! Adle also references Pablo Picasso a number of times,[47][48] who famously went through a melancholy Blue Period. Halcyon Daze. A still from Blue is the Warmest Colour.Credit:Transmission Films. 8.Actors' (and directors') feelings about their own work should not enter into the discussion. 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. 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''. Not the resolution of suffering as in the graphic novel, just suffering. In a film, there needs to be a point. I believe he cares a lot of his movie, but not so much for the actresses! If he cared about the character, he would. I felt a rejection of me; I live like a curse''. ), ya, OK and maybe a wee bit of Rum as well,. Whyd Kechiche reduce such a feeling of hope to the ambiguous sound of a hang player rather than actually show it after so much build-up? It took the fourth spot in its first weekend, which was seen as a "notably good showing because of its nearly three-hour length". "[41], In September 2013, Kechiche said the film should not be released. lesbian couple one chest other for a man.what happens when a lesbian couple cheat each other. La Vie d'Adle Chapitres 1 & 2 was released on Blu-ray Disc and DVD in France by Wild Side on 26 February 2014, and in North America, as Blue is the Warmest Color, through The Criterion Collection on 25 February 2014. [67] The film grossed $2,199,787 in the U.S. But the concept was only finalized a few years later when Kechiche chanced upon Maroh's graphic novel and he saw how he could link his screenplay about a schoolteacher with Maroh's love story between two young women. Perhaps Im making too much of this event. I think a lot of his exposition is related to the literary reveals he makes throughout the movie, (especially the poetry reference in the last teaching scene) I think they form a plot that is more feeling than exposition. I think that is nuts, to me the fact that she can go from teenage-girl blank to totally ecstatic, or totally devastated within the same story is a marvel. I thought of my incredulous anger, confusion, and frantic questioning when I myself had been mistreated, wondering how something that was meant to be good could make me feel so hopeless. Here, there isnt one. "Blue . document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); FOR ALL THAT LOVE THIS MOVIE AS MUCH AS THE ACTRESSES. ''No, it was real, but it was not as big as it looks,'' she replied. Written by Jonathan Dix and Beck Goldsmith. Blue Is the Warmest Color (French: Le bleu est une couleur chaude, originally announced as Blue Angel) is a French graphic novel by Jul Maroh, published by Glnat in March 2010. Emma discovers the cheating and furiously breaks up with Adle. Then I remembered that this was a film, too. It served as an intensifier for the tragedy. Why should the ending of the film, or certain key plot points throughout, be an exception to this rule? 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. 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. She tells Adle that she no longer loves her, but that their relationship was special and she will always have "infinite tenderness" for her. I hope she will find another woman who is strong and good (like Emma) and accept this womans love with an open mind as well as open arms. However I was alright with this ending artistically. Name another contemporary movie that is solely interested in the world of a young woman -- and that spends nearly three hours exploring it. We want the fun of flirting followed by the endorphin rush of sex. '), by the Algerian-born Kaddour Haddadi, is the official song of the French Communist Party. Adle is a high school student who is beginning to explore herself as a woman. [42][43], The camerawork and many of Kechiche's directorial decisions give the film a true-to-life feel, which has led audiences to read meaning into it that they derive from their personal experiences. Emma can handle more then one, lol! On one wall is a nude portrait of Adle that Emma painted during their time together. 3. I like to be tested. The thrilled threesome were pictured on the red carpet kissing and hugging. Even in the graphic novel one of Adeles friends help them talk things out. Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com. 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. Kechiche appeals to the natural rhythms of a film to justify his editing choices, but I have no idea what that means. Blue Is the Warmest Colour is likely to be 2013's most powerful film and easily one of the best."[79]. Its French candor, its unwavering camera, and the way in which it captures exactly what it feels like to ache for another human being. ''Fine! I was reminded of times I deliberately said things I knew would cut people, knowing how shit it would make them feel, but doing it anyway. At the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, Blue Is the Warmest Color became the first same-sex romance to win the Palme d'Or. It was hard to film it and maybe people think I was complaining and being spoiled, but that's not it. While sitting in the movie theater for 3 hrs, I was wondering, WHEN WILL THIS END?? Suffering. Batrice says she does not want to proceed further and tells Adle to forget the kiss. Were working to restore it. 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! [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". 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. The gay and queer people laughed because it's not convincing, and found it ridiculous. Adle's friend, the openly gay Valentin, takes her to a gay dance bar. We want to ignore our own problems and avoid having our vibes killed by hearing about anybody else's. 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