Often incorporating a handheld, seemingly improvisational flair, Kechiche doesn’t try to elevate the importance of Adèle and Emma’s relationship. In college and more worldly and sophisticated than Adèle, Emma is gay and in a two-year relationship, which soon ends once Adèle and Emma begin a courtship. They share a look but nothing more-until their paths cross again and Adèle learns that her name is Emma (Léa Seydoux).

Then one day, while walking down the street, she passes a captivating woman with blue hair. But for whom? A male classmate seems to take an interest in her, but she doesn’t feel much of a connection. Blue is even better, tracing the maturation process of Adèle (Adèle Exarchopoulos), a high school girl who’s starting to have hormonal stirrings. The filmmaker is Abdellatif Kechiche, who a few years ago produced The Secret of the Grain, one of the best recent foreign-language films. It hurts like real life, yet leaves you enraptured by its power.īlue Is the Warmest Color is a loose adaptation of a graphic novel by Julie Maroh. A beautiful, wise, erotic, devastating love story, this tale of a young lesbian couple’s beginning, middle and possible end utilizes its running time to give us a full sense of two individuals growing together and apart over the course of years. They don’t tend to be intimate character pieces, but Blue Is the Warmest Color ( La Vie D’Adèle Chapitres 1 et 2) more than justifies its length.

Three-hour movies usually are the terrain of Westerns, period epics or sweeping, tragic romances.

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