Léa Seydoux

Adèle Exarchopoulos

Salim Kéchiouche

Aurélien Recoing

Catherine Salée

Benjamin Siksou

Mona Walravens

Alma Jodorowsky

Jérémie Laheurte

Anne Loiret

Benoît Pilot

Sandor Funtek

Fanny Maurin

Maelys Cabezon

Samir Bella

Tom Hurier

Manon Piette

Quentin Médrinal

Peter Assogbavi

Wisdom Ayanou

Philippe Potier

Virginie Morgny

Stéphane Mercoyrol

Lucie Bibal

Baya Rehaz

Marilyne Chanaud

Camille Rutherford

Michael Skal

Sandrine Paraire

Flavie De Murat

Justine Nissart

Vincent Gaeta

Elizabeth Craig

Karim Saidi

Aurelie Lemanceau

Audrey Deswarte

Mejdi Ben Nasr

Hichem Ben Nasr

Janine Pillot

Antoinette Sarrazin

Alain Duclos

Éric Paul

Catherine Gilleron

Leila D'Issernio

Jean Luc D'Isserno

Selim Boukerfat

Oscar Pinelli

Léa Berkat

Nicolas Bourgasser

Camille Ayoras

Frédéric Wolsztyniak

Halima Slimani

Viktor Poisson

Utrillo

Radhouane El Meddeb

Julien Bucci

Alika Del Sol

Maud Wyler

Marc Schaegis

Olivier Verseau

Manou Poret

Klaim Nivaux

Chloé Malih

Ilyès Qada

Bouraouïa Marzouk

Abdellatif Kechiche

Ghalya Lacroix

Brahim Chioua

Vincent Maraval

Sofian El Fani

Albertine Lastera

Jean-Marie Lengellé

Camille Toubkis

Julia Lemaire

Joey van Impe

François Fripiat

Laurent Launes

Bahijja El Amrani

Sophie Blanvillain

Laurence Clerc

François Guerrar

Olivier Théry-Lapiney

Sophie Brunet

Paloma Garcia Martens

Frédéric Alexandre

Antoine Fromental

Monya Galbi

Auriane Lacince

Nicolas Turek

Coline Débée

Romain Cadilhac

Milène Chave

Jérôme Chenevoy

Mélanie Blouin

Renaud Guillaumin

Denis Martin

Fabien Pochet

Xavier Remy

Caroline Reynaud

Clément Trahard

Roland Voglaire

Jean-Louis Viroux

Sébastien Goepfert

Serge Hannecart

Nicolaos Zafiriou

Judith Chalier

Dorothée Lissac

Marcela Figueroa

Kévin Laperrière

Sarah Zaanoun

Alissa Doubrovitskaïa

Adélaïde Basson

Kader Bouallaga

Elise Luguern

Gaëtan Hugnet

Martin Neufkens

Phil Symes

Etienne Grandou

Jul Maroh

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La Vie d'Adèle - Chapitres 1 et 2

Wild Bunch

SCOPE Pictures

Quat'sous Films

France 2 Cinéma

RTBF

Alcatraz Films

Vértigo Films

Belgium

France

Spain

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Blue Is the Warmest Color

homophobia

self-discovery

coming of age

love

lesbian relationship

sexual attraction

based on graphic novel

high school student

sexual desire

teenage sexuality

lgbt

sexual awakening

literary adaptation

social class

french cinema

lille, france

self exploration

erotic

lesbian

age-gap relationship

teenager

Apart from the NC-17 sex scenes, the buzz of this film made me think it was going to be about the two people on the poster. But from the first frame, it's really just about one — Adele. So much film is spent focused on her face that it's easy to lose contact with other characters and the world around her. But in doing so, I felt very drawn into her thought process, which made the story of her romance to Emma that much more powerful, despite the language barrier and the relationship's keen specificities. Being so drawn in proved very helpful during the breakup scene. On it's own, you see a woman scorned and the sad stupidity of her unfaithful lover fighting a lost cause. But because we know so much about that unfaithful lover, I felt worse, because I know what led her to this place and was sad she couldn't articulate it in the moment. It added to what I think is the film's major achievement -- showing how an ecstatic love like Emma's and Adele's can end up feeling so isolating.

I became obsessed with Adele Exarchopoulos after seeing this. Didn't even have to look up that spelling. I ordered a custom-made 32" x 48" ish sized poster of her for my apartment that's still around somewhere. I'm pretty sure I tried to find her on snapchat. Thanks for reading.

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"Adèle" (Adèle Exarchopoulos) is a bit of a fish out of water at school. She doesn't quite fit in and finds the whole "boy" thing a bit of a turn off. Luckily the school also has it's extrovert in the blue-haired "Emma" (Léa Seydoux). She is shunned by her classmates because of the perception that she is just too eccentric for the normal kids, but "Adèle" finds her fascinating. Striking up a friendship, she soon discovers that there is more to be had from this alliance: something that comes with plusses and minuses and introduces her to the extremes of joy and pain. It's an obsession, an infatuation - an addiction, even, for "Adèle" but does "Emma" reciprocate. Is she looking for the same things from their relationship? Now, I'd have to say that there is no need for this story to take three hours to tell. At times it's a bit soapy, repetitive and moves as glacially as our own real-life experiences might have done - and who wants to relive them in real-time? That said, director Abdellatif Kechiche takes his time to carefully craft the characterisations of the women and of their families and the boys who are on the periphery of the girl's maturing personalities. There emerges an effective and engaging dynamic between the pair as the path of their true love most certainly doesn't run smoothly, and with some pithy dialogue and just a little raunchiness now and again, this is a better than average story of the challenges of an awakening spirit conflicted, hormonal and confused. It's worth a watch, but it can be a bit of a slog at times.

Blue Is the Warmest Color( 2013)

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A review by kineticandroid

Written by kineticandroid on Sat Jun 21 2014

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