Having no implausible exposition doesnt, for me, justify some of the editing choices. In a blog post, Maroh called the scenes "a brutal and surgical display, exuberant and cold, of so-called lesbian sex, which turned into porn, and made me feel very ill at ease", saying that in the movie theatre, "the hetero-normative laughed because they don't understand it and find the scene ridiculous. (LogOut/ In the same interview, Exarchopoulos recounted how the director drove them on during a scene of a break-up. The film spends time filming conflicts, emotions, and feelings in great, gory detail. Abdellatif records a lot of takes, so that you can let go.''. but honest and appropriate. Viewers who come alive when French is spoken -- and lament the American inability to emulate that je ne sais quoi sensibility, the light-yet-profound examination of corners of human existence large and small -- will find Blue intimately compelling, even transporting, as it unhurriedly unfolds its tale of intellectual and artistic striving, sexual communion and the indelible impact of first love. The website responded by suggesting he could be seen as paranoid. another journey.perhaps this one will be less fierce, less passionate, but, perhaps she will be happier.. "[40] In a January 2014 interview, Seydoux clarified: "I'm still very happy with this film. Sometimes they worked for 18 hours a day, although on other days Kechiche announced they were just going to drink coffee and talk. The irony of the film is that while Adle Exarchopoulos' Adle blames herself for the breach she ultimately brings about, her straying is a preemptive act of self-defense, a desperate--and terribly sad -- attempt at connection when the person who is her whole world has already started to slip away. Imo, Adele is too abstract and stubborn to find her way alone. theatrically. 4.It is as fascinated by the heart and the mind as the body. [33], In terms of cinematography, the shot/reverse shot scenes in the film were simultaneously shot with two different cameras. This fan appears very enamored of Emma. Blue is the Warmest Colour opens on Thursday. Whether you become utterly enraptured by the film or want to bolt from the theater will likely depend not on your inhibitions regarding female nudity and explicit sexuality but rather your feelings about the oeuvre of such Gallic masters as Agns Jaoui, Andr Tchin, Catherine Breillat and Big (Grand)Daddy Eric Rohmer. 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. I guess what Im trying to say, however badly, is that the films entire theme is a neurotic obsession with suffering. In The Yale Review, Charles Taylor wrote: "Instead of fencing its young lovers within a petting zoo Kechiche removes the barriers that separate us from them. Is this true of the Blue winning team? Director Abdellatif Kechiche spends three grueling hours painting an incredibly intimate picture of a relationship, from the fuzzy beginning, through the wobbling uncertainty in the middle, to the. I believe he cares a lot of his movie, but not so much for the actresses! But its too much feeling, and just because its feeling-based or off-script or improvised doesnt mean Kechiche has to avoid basic elements of how to tell a story. It's better than being called 'tyrant' or 'despot','' he snapped back. 5.It captures the primal essence of first love in all its exquisite rapture. He doesnt follow through with the thing hes set up. ''At least it's a classified illness.''. By the time they reached America, however, this reflective series of observations had been recast as fury. Oh I thought there was tremendous joy in the movie, and tremendous tragedy (the tragedy of the inevitable), and suffering of course. Even in the graphic novel one of Adeles friends help them talk things out. Emma goes to a gushing young fan with a huge smile and long dark hair. 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. Approximately 800 hours of footage were shot, including extensive B-roll footage, with Kechiche trimming the final cut to 180 minutes. The shoot, supposed to take two months, took five. [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. Emma and Adle become friends. 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. Hope isnt some faith-y thing that you appeal to in desperation. perhaps no more). There is a scene in the restaurant where two meet again, after years of separation, the tears that dwell on their eyes shows precisely how much they love each other, yet there is no way they will be together again. Casting director Sophie Blanvillain first spotted Adle Exarchopoulos and then arranged for her to meet Kechiche. 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. 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. "[91], The film received LGBT and feminist criticism for the perceived dominance of the male gaze and lack of female gaze, with some reviewers calling it a "patriarchal gaze. However I was alright with this ending artistically. Even if it was unethical, it did make a film excellent and enough to win at Cannes. I watched the film with my then girlfriend, and I suppose my initial and fairly pathetic concerns were that the intimacy between the two women, and the abject misery of their break-up, might make her decide that men simply weren't as good as women in bed, and that our relationship itself might not be the best on offer. I have heard some people criticize Adele Ex as being expressionless as an actress. Through the eyes of Adle we experience the breathless excitement of first love and first physical contact, but then, inevitably, all the other experiences that make life the way it is All of these are beautifully documented". 3. "Of course it was kind of humiliating sometimes, I was feeling like a prostitute," Seydoux said of the film's sex scene in an interview with The Independent. Its based in reality and the objectively good elements that the world has to offer in addition to the bad. Thats not how you make a film. Watching Blue Is the Warmest Color demands introspection and self-analysis. [26], Director and screenwriter Abdellatif Kechiche developed the premise for Blue Is the Warmest Colour while directing his second feature film, Games of Love and Chance (2003). That was at the end of May. Sure, you get used to it after a while its a movie after all and it does look poetic, but it still doesnt make sense with the rest of the film to me. Now after seeing it several times I am cool with it. There was tremendous joy, of course, but its only purpose was to contrast with how horribly the film would end. 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. "[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. Samir also sees this, and tries to comfort her. [22][23] The social class division is clear in the two family dinner scenes, with Adle's conservative, working-class family discussing comparatively banal subjects while Emma's more open-minded, middle-class family mainly discusses more existential matters: art, career, life and passion. And I disagree about the pacing. Emma and Adle kiss, but Emma withdraws, although she admits she does not feel sexually fulfilled. We are accustomed to getting what we want, how we want it and when we want it. [37] Technicians accused Kechiche of harassment, unpaid overtime, and violations of labor laws. As their stock of stories gathered momentum, however, Kechiche began to emerge as something of a monster. 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.. In the meantime, thanks for allowing me a soapbox for my rants, Hong. Don't miss a beat. It traces their affair from flirtation through a bitter break-up and its melancholy aftermath with such force of feeling that you seem to be living their lives yourself. [34][35] Another characteristic aspect of Blue's cinematography is the predominance of close-ups. But both of them had expected it to be hard. 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. 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? I dont think Kechiche understands his own film, TBH. Emma acknowledges Adle but is focused on Lise and the other guests. [32] Shooting took place in Lille, Roubaix, and Livin. ''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. But it's a blue-haired girl she meets on the street who really piques her interest. Hes trying to be a white knight for the character of Adele, and then distances himself from it because she has to deal with it on her own even though she probably cant. That happens with Pedro Almodovars movies, The Skin I Live In or Volver. He himself has admitted to being pessimistic in interviews. Significant plot points and character motivations that should have been explored (you seriously expect us to believe CLASS DIFFERENCES were what drove them apart, Kechiche? Kechiche felt that Seydoux "shared her character's beauty, voice, intelligence and freedom" and that she has "something of an Arabic soul". Not the visceral tugging of heartstrings. Sooner or later, shell have to be autonomous in some way, because otherwise, she wont survive in a realistic world. [13] Exarchopoulos and Seydoux also received the Palme as a special prize. 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. Once I had left the theater, it dawned on me: What scared and affected me most about Blue Is the Warmest Color was its warts-and-all depiction of a human relationship. 7.Its love scenes will surprise you. We SHOULD know what happens to Emma. Adle's pain is heart breaking to witness because it is born from the joy she felt when things were going well. . She ordered lemon tart and when I saw the way she ate it I thought, 'It's her! For three hours. 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