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La Vie D'Adèle - Chapitres 1 et 2 (2013) Drama/Romance
The English title Blue Is the Warmest Color feels almost misleading. It's a good enough title, and suits the film. Blue is used beautifully throughout. It just isn't a translation of the French title. The film isn't about the color blue. It's about the life of Adele, and is broken up into two chapters comprising a wonderful 3 hours of art and beauty. I loved it absolutely. It was directed by Abdellatif Kechiche and staring Adèle Exarchopulous, who plays Adèle in the film, and Léa Seydoux who plays Emma the blue haired girl. Both ladies perform excellently, but Adèle is startlingly superb. She is one of those people who are incapable of loosing their cool. No matter what they do, or how dirty or ugly they get, and no matter what tragedy befalls them, they are always beautiful, cool, and perfect.
I went into this film knowing very little about it, and that is my favorite way to go into a film of this caliber. There were several things about the film that surprised me. First of all, I was a bit skeptical of the homosexual content. I am familiar with the homosexual community to some extent, and I find that films rarely portray homosexual romance and relationships realistically. That was not the case with this film. I was startled by its realism and sexuality. I know what it is like to be so young, straight, in a gay bar for the first time, and being stared at and checked out. I know exactly what that atmosphere feels like. I felt it again in the film, so accurate, so real. And there was so much passion in this film. Adèle's love was breathtakingly powerful. I can think of no faults or shortcomings in this film. It was beautiful.
Rating: 9/10
La Vie D'Adèle - Chapitres 1 et 2 (2013) Drama/Romance
The English title Blue Is the Warmest Color feels almost misleading. It's a good enough title, and suits the film. Blue is used beautifully throughout. It just isn't a translation of the French title. The film isn't about the color blue. It's about the life of Adele, and is broken up into two chapters comprising a wonderful 3 hours of art and beauty. I loved it absolutely. It was directed by Abdellatif Kechiche and staring Adèle Exarchopulous, who plays Adèle in the film, and Léa Seydoux who plays Emma the blue haired girl. Both ladies perform excellently, but Adèle is startlingly superb. She is one of those people who are incapable of loosing their cool. No matter what they do, or how dirty or ugly they get, and no matter what tragedy befalls them, they are always beautiful, cool, and perfect.
I went into this film knowing very little about it, and that is my favorite way to go into a film of this caliber. There were several things about the film that surprised me. First of all, I was a bit skeptical of the homosexual content. I am familiar with the homosexual community to some extent, and I find that films rarely portray homosexual romance and relationships realistically. That was not the case with this film. I was startled by its realism and sexuality. I know what it is like to be so young, straight, in a gay bar for the first time, and being stared at and checked out. I know exactly what that atmosphere feels like. I felt it again in the film, so accurate, so real. And there was so much passion in this film. Adèle's love was breathtakingly powerful. I can think of no faults or shortcomings in this film. It was beautiful.
Rating: 9/10