His fascination and familiarity with the world of pedagogy, as shown here in Adle's touching reverence for teaching, is another notable characteristic". The pacing is totally arbitrary, leaving Kechiche no reference but his unpredictable, chaotic, pessimistic gut. He cares about the character of Adele, and wants her to be happy (maybe thats the reason for his strange dedication) but restrains himself from doing it more than he has. [71], More than 40 critics named the film as one of the ten best of 2013. The truth is it was extremely hard but that's OK. And all of this goes against the point of an ambiguous ending: If you make an ending ambiguous, make it ambiguous for a good reason! Theres sensitivity somewhere deep down in him, but its irretrievably lost due to the layers of pretension and bitterness, probably from his own life experiences. At the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, Blue Is the Warmest Color became the first same-sex romance to win the Palme d'Or. '', Kechiche's problem, she said, was his naivety. An incredibly intense and realistic one, but a work of fiction nonetheless. Was Adele more of an professional assistant to Emma at the end, than a lover? Blue is the Warmest Colour opens on Thursday. 2023 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved. Change), You are commenting using your Facebook account. Before its release, Blue Is the Warmest Color was hyped intensely. ''I want to pay them tribute.''. At the point in their lives, the relationship has gone as far as it has. Together, Adle and Emma explore social acceptance, sexuality, and the emotional spectrum of their maturing relationship. Performed by Jonathan Dix and Beck Goldsmith. But I'm also looking forward to hearing what other women will think about it. But both of them had expected it to be hard. Oh I thought there was tremendous joy in the movie, and tremendous tragedy (the tragedy of the inevitable), and suffering of course. Two days later, he told a press conference in Los Angeles that it was obscene for these young women to claim they had suffered. [9][10][11], At the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, the film unanimously won the Palme d'Or from the official jury and the FIPRESCI Prize. Kechiche felt that Seydoux "shared her character's beauty, voice, intelligence and freedom" and that she has "something of an Arabic soul". In truth, it isn't sex per se that makes "Blue Is the Warmest Color" problematic; it's the patriarchal anxieties about sex, female appetite and maternity that leach into its sights and sounds. seriously?) I like to be tested. Adele watches this situation from a few feet away. Adeles friends will help her through her problem, and probably talk with Emma about what she did to Adele. Unless there is a continuation of the story in La Vie d'Adle Part 2, we will never know if Adle will be granted a second chance at love -- and if that chance can ever be anything more than a shadow of her first. 6.It understands the human condition. [4] Further criticism targeted disrupted working patterns and salaries. In fact I think it is Adeles love for life that makes her so vulnerable and so sensitive. perhaps years if you happen to be in Adeles shoes, or worse, Emma and somewhere along the way, we are either Adele, Emma or a combination of both. and, of course she finds sublime joy in making love to Emma. Talking about filming the sex scenes, the longest of which was filmed over 10 gruelling days, Seydoux said: ''It was sometimes embarrassing and sometimes illuminating, surrounded by three cameras in a very small room. [22][23] The social class division is clear in the two family dinner scenes, with Adle's conservative, working-class family discussing comparatively banal subjects while Emma's more open-minded, middle-class family mainly discusses more existential matters: art, career, life and passion. He chases after her but goes in the wrong direction, while Adle walks off into the distance. Now, Emma, the bohemian stranger, creeps up in Adle's dreams, haunting her late-night fantasies. All that means that we could love, lost, and love again.. With a distinction no less effective for being understated, Blue empathizes with what people navigating the closet must undergo while matter-of-factly airing the beauty of living openly. Sooner or later, shell have to be autonomous in some way, because otherwise, she wont survive in a realistic world. The idea that two people who love each other that much can put each other through such pain really got to me. A month later, Kechiche wrote an open letter to Rue 89 news website that appeared to accuse the ''arrogant, spoilt'' Seydoux of slander and suggested she could explain herself in court. This is simply my personal stance. Blue is the Warmest Color triumphantly revealed love in the extremes, both in its beauty and in its monstrosity. It follows them through multiple years and through separation. Im just saying theres no reason for him to leave it vague, other than if he just ran out of energy. In the same interview, Exarchopoulos recounted how the director drove them on during a scene of a break-up. 2. Anyone who has seen Shortbus, John Cameron Mitchell's unique, oddly touching film about the quest for connection and the unsimulated mechanics of how humans actually go about it cannot help but view the way sex unfolds in nonpornographic films with a somewhat refocused eye. It had a limited release at four theatres in New York City and Los Angeles on 25 October 2013, and expanded gradually in subsequent weeks. But when it ended, I was like.. Life is such and Adele got what she deserved ..or not, depending on my mood. Blue straddles the divide between art film and erotica with a specificity previously unseen, but while its sex scenes are far longer than viewers of nonpornographic movies are accustomed to, and the actresses wholeheartedly throw themselves into them, the auteur's hand cannot be completely removed from our experience of the film. [73] In France, Cahiers du cinma placed the film third on its 2013 Top Ten chart. The two girls that confront Adele about whether she is a lesbian are the same two girls who coerced her into checking out Thomas, dating Thomas and having sex with Thomas. Living in the massive cesspool of ambition, greed, and "luxury apartments" that is London, everyone is obsessed with their jobs, their friends, and their incredibly important lives. And I disagree about the pacing. [45][46] The colour blue is used extensively throughout the filmfrom the lighting in the gay club Adle visits to the dress she wears in the last scene and most notably in Emma's hair and eyes. Id have to say that I disagree with your assessment. Feel free to let me know if I am. Either way, both column inches and word of mouth earned the film a level of infamy that put me in a state of anxiety before I'd even seen it. However, for all his claims about trying to capture life, he doesnt. [42][43], The camerawork and many of Kechiche's directorial decisions give the film a true-to-life feel, which has led audiences to read meaning into it that they derive from their personal experiences. Its open to interpretation, but its not in line with the rest of the series and comes across as pretentious. One Film Comment critic wrote, "As in Kechiche's earlier work, social class, and the divisions it creates, are a vital thread; he even changed the first name of the story's passionate protagonist from Clmentine to that of his actress, partly because it means 'justice' in Arabic. Your culture and entertainment cheat-sheet. We dont know what the future holds for Adele, for Emma and for their relationship; it is frustrating for me . I respect your opinion, Hong, and I thank you for tolerating mine so far, but I cannot say that this ending is good anymore. The film, directed by Abdellatif Kechiche, a French director of Tunisian origin widely regarded as one of French cinema's small handful of masters, is the story of a great passion between two teenage girls. Emma can handle more then one, lol! [18] She passes an older woman with short blue hair in the streets one day and is instantly attracted. ''Directors and actors being what they are, they like a good argument,'' wrote a commentator in a piece comparing the saga with other screen clashes. French-Tunisian director Abdellatif Kechiche first wanted to explore the story of a school teacher due to his preoccupations with social class. Available on AMC+, IFC Films, Prime Video, iTunes. As a cynic, I never thought I'd find myself writing this, but the main lesson I took from Blue Is the Warmest Color is to seize the day and be unafraid of intimacy. Then for a time I really resented the ending, kind of feeling like you RC just let down. The shoot, supposed to take two months, took five. Like optimism, thats not a realistic way to view the world, nor is it something that a group of people who need hope (the group he tried dedicating the film to in a weird move at Cannes) should see or need to see. In the sense that I want to see more and more of both of these characters, I hate to see this movie end, period. The stories about him, he told French magazine Telerama, had left him feeling ''humiliated, disgraced. That was at the end of May. The music, 'On lche rien' ('We will never give up! Blue is the Warmest Color (2013) is a movie that changed the film industry. The strength of this connection radiates off the screen, and the sex scenewhile explicitis necessary to illustrate the passion between the two. Nothing Maroh said could douse the critics' rapture, however. Emma discovers the cheating and furiously breaks up with Adle. Speaking to The Guardian in November, Exarchopoulos confirmed that ''this film is the best thing I have done in my life''. So overwhelmed were the members of the Cannes jury that they decided to give the Palme D'Or not only to the director, but, in an unprecedented move, to the two actresses, Lea Seydoux and Adele Exarchopoulos, as well. 4.It is as fascinated by the heart and the mind as the body. Blue Is the Warmest Colour Ending Explained Ge_Krystal.303 May 13, 2022 Pin On Final Major 1 Blue Is The Warmest Color Blue Is The Warmest Colour Warm Colors Film Blue Is The Warmest Color How Is The Movie Different From The Book Blue Is The Warmest Colour Review A Searingly Frank And Intimate Account The Independent The Independent Adle's life is changed when she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire and to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. . "[75] Writing for The Guardian, Peter Bradshaw added that "it is genuinely passionate film-making" and changed his star rating for the film to five out of five stars after previously having awarded it only four. She tells Adle that she no longer loves her, but that their relationship was special and she will always have "infinite tenderness" for her. The only reason Kechiche doesnt give one, as far as I know, is either because he gave up, or because hes concerned with manipulating his audience first, and caring for people second. Emma goes to a gushing young fan with a huge smile and long dark hair. 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 Adle Exarchopoulos and La Seydoux. It is the first film to have the Palme d'Or awarded to both the director and the lead actresses, with Seydoux and Exarchopoulos joining Jane Campion (The Piano) and later Julia Ducournau (Titane) as the only women to have won the award. Adle also references Pablo Picasso a number of times,[47][48] who famously went through a melancholy Blue Period. "[28] In the film, Adle's parents seem oblivious to her love affair with Emma and politely greet her under the impression that she is Adle's philosophy tutor. My mind also occasionally returns to 1994a youthful, more optimistic time in my lifewhen my dad took me to watch Chelsea vs. Manchester United in the FA Cup Final. After Emma shows up at the school, Adle's friends suspect her of being a lesbian and ostracise her. In front of others, Adle grows, seeks herself, loses herself, and ultimately finds herself through love and loss. To me it has the episodic quality of a dream, it presents scenes, moments of Adeles life, to us and we can fill in the gaps with our imagination. Adele mentions that he gets attached to his character and doesnt like to let them go because in the book that its based on, the character Clementine (Adele) dies from a heart condition (symbolizing a broken heart) stemming from her depression from her breakup with Emma. Hit her again'! 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