However, with the release of abdellatif kechiches adaptation of julie marohs blue is the warmest color, it seems like an opportune time to explore the differences between the printed. Undergraduate dissertation for goldsmiths, university of london fine art course, submitted in 2015. The first third seemed pretty loyal to the book, but as it bled into the second third, i enjoyed the plot deviations and how those deviations really made the film an. Adele and emma live together like a committed couple. Its no surprise then that the color plays a significant role throughout the film. How can abdellatif kechiche 20 film blue is the warmest colour be considered as a film that is. First published in france by gl nat, the book has won several awards, including the audience prize at the angoul me international comics festival, europes largest. What really happened on the blue is the warmest colour set.
Blue is the warmest color by julie maroh overdrive. Adeles 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. The film follows adele exarchopoulos, a french teenager who discovers desire and freedom as an aspiring female. Borrowed blue is the warmest color is a graphic novel about growing up, falling in love, and coming out. Clementine, a high school student, has an average life. When her openly gay best friend takes her out on the town, she wanders into a lesbian bar. The sevenminute lesbian sex scene in the french drama blue is the warmest color is the most controversial of the year. Shot digitally on canons eosc300 and derived directly from the digital files, blue is the warmest color flows onto bluray in a stunning 2.
Review with spoilers my discovery of this movie came from it being listed amongst 12 years a slave as movies to watch out for after the toronto international film festival. Blue is the warmest color paperback gibsons bookstore. Combining the romantic chemistry of young adult novels, lack of inhibition, a story which feels like a 600page book you cant put down, you get blue is the warmest color. Blue is the warmest color is a graphic novel about growing up, falling in love, and coming out.
Some very potent intercourse takes place between a workingclass high school student and an. The liveaction, frenchlanguage film version of the book, entitled blue is the warmest color, won the palme dor at the cannes film festival in may 20. Parents need to know that blue is the warmest color is a french drama with english subtitles that chronicles a high school girl as she matures emotionally and sexually over about 10 years. Blue is the warmest color left an immeasurably profound impact on me. Immediately after the cannes premiere, a french film. We see the first of many days of adele as a teacher for preschool age children. Blue is the warmest color book king county library. It follows them through multiple years and through separation. All those silly, lovely things we do for love at that age are delightfully mingled with scenes of intense eroticism, and thats where blue is the warmest color hits its highest notes. First published in france by glenat, the book has won several awards, including the audience prize at the angouleme international comics festival, europes largest. Blue is the warmest color came out of the 20 cannes film festival with the palme dor and drew a lot of attention for its explicit lesbian sex scenes and formidable threehour running time. Thats a shame, because the book has, up to that point, managed to shine a whitehot spotlight on the overwhelming power of young, immature desire. In front of others, adele grows, seeks herself, loses herself, and ultimately finds herself through love and loss.
With lea seydoux, adele exarchopoulos, salim kechiouche, aurelien recoing. This movie was considered controversial due to its erotic scenes and taboo storyline. The liveaction french film version of blue is the warmest color won the palme dor at the cannes film festival in 20 originally published in french as le bleu est une couleur chaude, blue is the warmest color is a graphic novel about growing up, falling in love, and coming out. They also explain in the how humans have revolving emotions that exists time and time again. Blue is the warmest color was one of last years international indie darlings. The englishlanguage edition was published by arsenal pulp press in 20. Blue is the warmest color red band trailer for blue is the warmest color. Clementine is a junior in high school who seems average enough. We see emma sketch adele as she lays out nude on a sofa with a cigarette dangling from her mouth. Pdf blue is the warmest colour james lawrence slattery.
The novel tells a love story between two young women in france at the end of the 1990s. See what the scene looks like in the graphic novel upon which. In the movie it shows the progression of two characters who are go through pursuit of love, sex, and career ambition. In my opinion, it was a masterfully crafted experience in every respect. I love how much philosophy and literature is a part of this movie depicting the fate and destiny of these two heroines. Blue is the warmest color complete comic book part 2. As with other entries in the actor turned directors filmography, his latest masterpiece sports a lofty running. In marohs blue is the warmest color clementine is to quote the standard lyric sixteengoingonseventeen, seemingly and quietly going through late adolescence on autopilot when, out of the blue haha, she has a chance encounter with the bohemian art student emma. Blue is the warmest color comic read blue is the warmest.
Abdellatif kechiches freely inspired blue is the warmest color turned one of the most powerful and unique stories of love into one of the blandest and universally accessible. While few pictures can dramatically justify lasting longer than two hours, let alone three, kechiche who also adapted the screenplay with ghalia. Le blue est une couleur chaude blue is the warmest color was the surprise winner of the palme dor at this years cannes film festival, but the lesbian love story began life as a comic book. Read blue is the warmest color blue angel full version blue is the. The graphic novel was rich in character development, narrative, plot, dialogue, internal monologue in the form of diaries, surprise, beauty, and color. Blue is the warmest color, book by julie maroh paperback. Blue is the warmest color full movie video dailymotion. Philosophy and literature blue is the warmest color. Blue is the warmest color 20 is a movie that changed the film industry. The film won the palme dor at the 20 cannes film festival, and i suspect that much of the popularity of both the graphic novel and the movie had more to do with the subject matter than with the quality of the story itself. In case the headline wasnt clear enough, this post contains spoilers from the book and the movie versions of blue is the warmest color in a recent conversation about. It has very explicit sex with full nudity and graphic depictions of sex acts, mostly between two women, but one with a man also briefly shows an erect penis. Blue is the warmest color is about class, not just sex. A nofrills portrayal of lesbian sex in queer cinema i respectfully, wholeheartedly disagree with the graphic novels author, julie maroh, who has stated that director abdellatif kechiches heteronormative perspective results in a mechanical and brutal sex scene that lacks lesbian authenticity.
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