2013 ‘La vie d'Adèle - Chapitres 1 et 2’ Directed by Abdellatif Kechiche
Adèle's life is changed when 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. In front of others, Adele grows, seeks herself, loses herself, finds herself.
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The story of a young girl named Adèle who's rolling in the deep of love. Fuckin' class. Thomas is no Brad Pitt. Yummy bolognese! Autobus chit-chat. Gypsy music is the shit. Blue-hair-stare. Lunch and a movie. An erotic dream. A sex-cop. A fuck. After-coutis-cuddling. A blue-bench break-up. Fuckin' protesters. Adèle's mysterious side. Schoolyard tonsil-hockey. Alice's ass. Bathroom rejection. Love has no gender. Bull-Dyke-Beer. A fun day at the park. Bob Marley was a cool mother fucker. When was the first time you tasted a girl? 7 minutes in Heaven. Dancing in the streets. Fuckin' parents. Here's to love. Proof eating oysters makes you want to fuck. A surprise birthday party. The way Emma smiles. Philosophy is so fuckin' awesome. Adèle's…
Abdellatif Kechiche’s Palme d’Or winning film has been constantly overshadowed, first by its controversial and explicit sex scenes and then by the accusations of Kechiche’s questionable practices by his own cast and crew. It is a shame that the discussion has shifted away from the obvious qualities that Blue is the Warmest Colour possesses as this is one of the most intimate and nakedly honest coming-of-age dramas of recent years.
The original French title - La vie d'Adèle - Chapitres 1 et 2 - perfectly captures the essence of the film. It is merely two short chapters in the life of the film’s protagonist, Adèle (Adèle Exarchopoulos), on her journey of self-discovery. Adèle is an awkward yet hungry teenager who…
My poetic ode to a film that is so painfully honest, so beautifully raw, so hypnotic and captivating, so boldly passionate and stars two of the most beguiling actresses I have seen on screen for quite some time:
Like the turn of seasons
Fire dances its tune
Sometimes in radiance
A scorched crimson glow
Sometimes in passion
A bold amber hue
Even in bitter winds
The flame never dies
For in all of its colours
The warmest is blue
this movie kills me. it literally breaks me. there is no film about love better than this. nothing. i'm so sad.
"But I have infinite tenderness for you. I always will. My whole life."
We usually associate love with the color red (thanks to Wong Kar Wai, maybe). But for Adele, love came to her as short blue hair. Since then, almost everywhere she looked, she saw blue. Flowers stood out more, jeans were highlighted, the sky devoured her vision. So if she considers blue as the warmest color, who are we to correct her? The film invites us to see the world through Adele's eyes, and feel the infinite tenderness that she received from Emma. Whenever there's an emotional gap between the couple, the color fades. When they touch, the entire city seems to be painted over. It's evident that Emma's influence on Adele is absolute, now imagine that influence being forcefully ripped…
Blue Is the Warmest Color is an outstanding film about a girl who is trying to find herself. It's a coming of age film that is like nothing I've ever seen. This is truly a beautiful movie. I almost can't even call this a film because it seemed so real. Honestly, I felt like I was standing right on the side seeing everything unfold in person. These two women give the most sincere and honest performances that I have ever seen. Adele Exarchopoulos gives the BEST female performance of 2013. She was seriously beyond great. Lea Seydoux was outstanding as well.
Everything looked amazing; the camerawork and shots were something else. It added so much to the movie. The way…
a great movie for What it is but nothing I would watch again. It felt boring at some points and felt as though it might have dragged on. But overall it was a great love story.
I've lowered this movie's rating because it's been a day and there's still something that feels weird to me. The sex scenes felt really loveless for a movie about love.
I watched this while my roommate was in the room and she couldn't understand anything they were saying and was confused by all the sex noises. Despite that this is a really beautiful movie and I love the use of the color blue throughout the film.
This is a really remarkable film, but it has a glaring flaw that is nearly, if not fully fatal. I'm far from the first to assail the male gaze issue here, and it bothered me on first viewing in 2013, but I recall having some justifications for many instances of it then. None come to mind now. The performances are stellar, and Kechiche does a remarkable job in so many instances of bringing us within Adele's headspace. The use of food as a metaphor and as a gateway into Adele's approach to the world is brilliant here. And the sex scenes are good--well shot, well composed, and yes, erotic--but therein lies the issue that stuck with me on this viewing.…
This is one of the cruelest portraits on loneliness I've ever seen. The main characters in Kechiche's previous films, Krimo in L'Esquive and Slimane in La Graine et le Mulet, despite their introverted nature, never feel as isolated as Adèle. They are always surrounded by their family and friends, for better or worse. It's probably why Kechiche didn't bother to develop any of the ancillary characters here like he used to do.
To think of how much the idea of predestination define Adèle makes the final scene absolutely devastating. Her romance with Emma both begins and ends with it, love at first sight eventually cannot escape the social class division. She never fit in with Emma's artist's circle, but she also can't find happiness if she settles for someone less. No matter how sexually compatible they are, everything else comes before the carnal desire for their relationship to be sustainable. Stuck in limbo makes Adèle so alone in this world.
The central romance is told beautifully, and the two leads give dazzling performances.
It's like watching a movie on TV but instead of commercials you get lesbian porn.
It's like watching a movie on TV but instead of commercials you get lesbian porn.
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