![]() ![]() The romance “Blue is a warm colour” is about the 17-year-old pupil Adèle (Adèle Exarchopoulos). La Bala de Billy - Pupy & Los Que Son Son Timestamp: 2:21 | Scene: The dance class around Adele dances to this song. Timestamp: 2:00 | Scene: Adele meets her work colleagues in the bar.īonbon (Guinée) - Marlène Ngaro, Mamadoudiam Camara Timestamp: 1:55 | Scene: Adele is dancing with a man. Visit The Stone - Mark G Hart and Stephen Emil Dudas Timestamp: 1:50 | Scene: During the party. So Far S'good - Mark G Hart and Stephen Emil Dudas Timestamp: 1:29 | Scene: Song can be heard at Adèle's birthday party. I Follow Rivers (The Magician Remix) - Lykke Li Timestamp: 1:28 | Scene: Adele's birthday. Timestamp: 0:51 | Scene: Adele writes in her diary. Emma's girlfriend asks Adèle if they all want to go to the clubs in Belgium together. Timestamp: 0:50 | Scene: Song can be heard in the bar. Timestamp: 0:46 | Scene: Emma and Adele talking in the bar. Timestamp: 0:43 | Scene: Adele walks through the lesbian bar.įeel It Now - Steve Satterthwaite, Alex Johnson & Christopher Allen Live for Today - Dennis Winslow, Robert J. Timestamp: 0:38 | Scene: Song can be heard in the gay and lesbian club. Timestamp: 0:27 | Scene: They sing this song during the protest. Their idiosyncratic performances are very worth seeing.Timestamp: 0:01 | Scene: Adele and Emma are on the gay and lesbian parade. The actors say they're happy with the results, but it doesn't seem like a methodology we should accept.įortunately, Blue Is the Warmest Colour's Palme d'Or, for the first time in history, was jointly awarded to the director and the film's two stars. ![]() It especially matters as the movie includes a hardcore seven-minute sex scene that took apparently ten days to shoot. Since Cannes, there's been growing criticism of the hetero director's imaginings of a lesbian romance, and the camera's gaze does seem to cross a line from luscious into lascivious at times.Įschewing the usual press tour conventions, Exarchopoulos and Seydoux have been pretty frank in interviews about what it was like to work with the director - "horrible", uncomfortable, possibly exploitative and endlessly drawn out past schedule. However, not all of the three hours' worth of scenes deserve to be there, and Kechiche's execution seems haphazard and uncompromising. Captured in extreme close-up, Blue Is the Warmest Colour lets you feel the beauty and the pain of it, really feel it, for a few blessed minutes. But first loves don't often last, and that's probably a good thing. Their love is explosive, total and immensely physical. She's from a plain, working-class household, and her world opens up when she meets art student Emma, who floors her from across the street with her blue-streaked hair and white-hot insouciance. She waxes lyrical about her favourite classic novel, joins in song at a political demonstration, fools around with a sweet boy who only makes her depressed, and eats spag bol with her mouth open at an incommunicative family dinner table. We see Adele as a whole person discovering the world, not just her sexuality. By far its biggest charm lies in the understated yet giving and uninhibited performances of its leads, Exarchopoulos as Adele and Lea Seydoux as her worldlier girlfriend, Emma. Yet as much as a Cannes-adored French coming-of-age movie (based on a graphic novel, by author Julia Maroh) appeals to my personal proclivities, I found Blue Is the Warmest Colour to be more of an interesting film than a great one. It's an extreme viewing experience that garnered high praise in Europe and won the most prestigious independent film award on the planet, the Palme d'Or. The director boldly sticks his camera in the face of actor Adele Exarchopoulos and lets it linger there for three hours, watching intensely as the ingenue lives and loses her first love, while several years roll by. There's the naturalism you know, and then there's the immersive, mythic, sensorial and heady naturalism of Abdellatif Kechiche's Blue Is the Warmest Colour (known in its native France as Adele: Chapters 1 & 2).
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