Is Kechiche in this instance making the claim that cinema is able – as a painting is – to unleash the enigmatic interior world laying hidden behind eyes? Indeed, Adèle’s extraordinary performance strips naked a private universe. Early on in their encounter Emma sketches Adèle on a park bench, referring to Jean-Paul Sartre’s expression of ‘the mysterious weakness of man’s face’. Adèle, a high school student at the beginning and teacher at the end, meets Emma an art school graduate, who will initiate the new chapter in Adèle’s life. I was thoroughly captivated by the outstanding performance of Adèle Exarchopoulos and Léa Seydoux, who together manage to depict emotions that are universal. Rarely before had I been so completely immersed in a narrative, even felt to be a part of it. Initially intimidated by the prospect of this three-hour film, I found myself surprised when the credits started to appear at the end. The film’s original title La Vie d’Adèle – Chapitres 1 & 2 is much more fitting, not least because the colour blue is initially introduced as a reference to Adèle’s emerging passionate desires that grows out like the dye of her lover’s hair which leave only her piercing sapphire eyes. It is additionally the first film based on a graphic novel to have won the Palme d’Or at Cannes.Īn intricate synthesis of Julie Maroh’s 2010 graphic novel Le bleu est une couleur chaude and Pierre de Marivaux’s 18 th-century novel La Vie de Marianne, Kechiche’s film is nonetheless firmly rooted in the here and now of French quotidian life. Kechiche won the Palme d’Or at the 66 th Cannes Film Festival in 2013, the award was jointly attributed from the jury –(that year headed by Steven Spielberg) to him and the two principle actresses Adèle Exarchopoulos and Léa Seydoux, the only women besides Jane Campion to have been given this most distinguished award. As if this wasn’t enough controversy before the official screening of Blue, the two leading actresses along with other crewmembers accused Kechiche for having produced unbearable working conditions. The premiere took place as France passed a new same-sex marriage law, which was followed by anti gay-marriage protests in Paris.
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Blue Is the Warmest Colour by Abdellatif Kechiche combines a coming-of-age storyline, fused with startling intimacy and remarkable realism in its depiction of two female lovers – it is an emotionally absorbing experience, intense and incendiary.