Blue Is the Warmest Colour
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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.
What critics thought
Critically adored on release and still regarded as one of the decade's defining films, this three-hour portrait of first love and heartbreak earned near-universal praise for Adèle Exarchopoulos and Léa Seydoux's performances and Kechiche's immersive, uncompromising direction. The one persistent fault line: whether the long, explicit sex scenes represent an authentic lesbian relationship or a straight male director's fantasy imposed on queer experience — a debate that grew louder after release and has never fully settled.
“Kechiche's film is three hours long, and the only problem with that running time is that I could have happily watched it for another seven. It is an extraordinary, prolonged popping-candy explosion of pleasure, sadness, anger, lust and hope, and contained within it – although only just – are the two best performances of the festival, from Adèle Exarchopoulos and Léa Seydoux.”
Robbie Collin·The Daily Telegraph
“The problem with Kechiche's scenes is that they're too good—too unusual, too challenging, too original—to be assimilated ... to the familiar moviegoing experience. Their duration alone is exceptional, as is their emphasis on the physical struggle, the passionate and uninhibited athleticism of sex, the profound marking of the characters' souls by their sexual relationship.”
Richard Brody·The New Yorker
“If the film were just a series of sex scenes it would, of course, be problematic, but it's much, much more than that. Through the eyes of Adèle 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”
David Stratton·The Australian
Genres
Drama, Romance
Cast & Crew
DirectorAbdellatif Kechiche
StarringLéa Seydoux, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Salim Kéchiouche, Aurélien Recoing, Catherine Salée
Blue Is the Warmest Colour
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.
What critics thought
Critically adored on release and still regarded as one of the decade's defining films, this three-hour portrait of first love and heartbreak earned near-universal praise for Adèle Exarchopoulos and Léa Seydoux's performances and Kechiche's immersive, uncompromising direction. The one persistent fault line: whether the long, explicit sex scenes represent an authentic lesbian relationship or a straight male director's fantasy imposed on queer experience — a debate that grew louder after release and has never fully settled.
“Kechiche's film is three hours long, and the only problem with that running time is that I could have happily watched it for another seven. It is an extraordinary, prolonged popping-candy explosion of pleasure, sadness, anger, lust and hope, and contained within it – although only just – are the two best performances of the festival, from Adèle Exarchopoulos and Léa Seydoux.”
Robbie Collin·The Daily Telegraph
“The problem with Kechiche's scenes is that they're too good—too unusual, too challenging, too original—to be assimilated ... to the familiar moviegoing experience. Their duration alone is exceptional, as is their emphasis on the physical struggle, the passionate and uninhibited athleticism of sex, the profound marking of the characters' souls by their sexual relationship.”
Richard Brody·The New Yorker
“If the film were just a series of sex scenes it would, of course, be problematic, but it's much, much more than that. Through the eyes of Adèle 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”
David Stratton·The Australian
Genres
Drama, Romance
Cast & Crew
DirectorAbdellatif Kechiche
StarringLéa Seydoux, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Salim Kéchiouche, Aurélien Recoing, Catherine Salée
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