Quat'sous films, Wild Bunch Production, France 2 Cinéma, Scope Pictures, Vértigo Films Adele (Adele Exarchopoulos) is a high school student in the throws of sexual awareness. Vincent Maraval, Brahim Chioua, Abdellatif Kechiche Léa Seydoux, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Jérémie Laheurte, Catherine Salée, Aurélien Recoing, Sandor FuntekĬamille Toubkis, Albertine Lastera, Jean-Marie Lengelle, Ghalya Lacroix international title:īE, FR, HU, NL, LV, PL, IT, IS, LT, RO, UK, SE, CZ, DK, DE, AT It was powerful and gripping in its honesty and fearlessness. In front of others, Adele grows, seeks herself, loses herself, finds herself. Blue is the Warmest Color triumphantly revealed love in the extremes, both in its beauty and in its monstrosity. Jones in the November-December 2013 Issue There is a vivid party scene at the middle of Abdellatif Kechiche’s sprawling Palme d’Or winner Blue Is the Warmest Color (aka, in France, La Vie d’Adle: Chapitres 1 et 2 ) that encapsulates some of the film’s strengths and weaknesses. Adle imagines that the mysterious, blue-haired girl she encountered. Review: Blue Is the Warmest Color By Kristin M. A handsome male classmate falls for her, but an unsettling erotic reverie upsets the romance before it begins. That night, the woman figures in an erotic dream, and her world is rocked. Blue is the Warmest Color centers on a 15-year-old girl named Adle (Adle Exarchopoulos) who is climbing to adulthood and dreams of experiencing her first love.
Clementine is 15 in 1994 when she sees a beautiful young woman with blue hair crossing the plaza. Her life is turned upside down the night she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire, to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. From Belgium, the graphic novel on which the 2013 Palme d’Orwinning film of the same name was based. At 15, Adele doesn't question it: a girl goes out with boys.