Blueis the Warmest Color is the type of film a true movie fan has to approach gingerly. It is impossible to escape the diarrhea of praise it initially received around the world, winning the coveted Palm D'Or at Cannes and becoming heralded as a courageous movie and an all-time great love story (all because the story centers around a same-sex ANew York Times bestseller The original graphic novel adapted into the film Blue Is the Warmest Color , winner of the Palme d'Or at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival In this tender, bittersweet, full-color graphic novel, a young woman named Clementine di Oct 25, 2013 11:28 AM PT. This week, "Blue Is the Warmest Color," the sexually explicit lesbian love story that won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, becomes the latest high PaulinaPlazas. "Blue Is The Warmest Color" was recently added to Netflix's library under the Lesbian and Gay section. But is this a lesbian film? It seemed to have gone completely unnoticed Interms of imagery, and as the title of the film depicts "Blue is the warmest color", Blue symbolizes various aspects. For instance, naturally Blue depicts warmth, or rather acceptance and so forth. The color blue is widely used and essentially significant throughout the film. Pictures, on the hand, as well illustrated the aspect of the ANew York Times bestseller. The original graphic novel adapted into the film Blue Is the Warmest Color, winner of the Palme d'Or at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival; released in the US this fall by IFC Films/Sundance Selects. In this tender, bittersweet, full-color graphic novel, a young woman named Clementine discovers herself and the elusive magic of love when she meets a confident blue-haired WhenAbdellatif Kechiche (Secret of the Grain) debuted Blue Is the Warmest Color in Cannes in May, the festival jury was so taken with the film and its two lead performances that it split the DirectorAbdellatif Kechiche's film, "Blue is the Warmest Color," is a great example of how (since this style and its variations are so ubiquitous a distinction must be made between the aesthetic of Dogma influenced dramas and the commonly employed style of the "mockumentary" used to great effect in comedies that is basically a combination of EMMH3K9. 22/05/2013 - Adèle Exarchopoulos and Léa Seydoux smash the barriers of social romanticism in the exceptional feminine "love story" by Abdellatif KechicheAdèle Exarchopoulos and Léa Seydoux in Blue Is the Warmest Colour"Touching the very essence of the human being" is the challenge of "cinéma vérité", or cinema revealing the candid truth, always confronted by Abdellatif Kechiche in a career already rich in rewards after only four feature films. But with Blue is the Warmest Color [+see also trailerinterview Abdellatif Kechichefilm profile], in competition at the 66th Cannes Film Festival, the filmmaker clearly soars to an even higher altitude by getting as close as possible to the hearts and skins of two young women from very different social backgrounds. Weaving a hyper-sexed romantic work of extraordinary breadth without ever departing from his stylistic line giving priority to life and the intensity of the sequences, nor renouncing profound reflection and social analysis, the director offers the almost unknown Adèle Exarchopoulos and rising star Léa Seydoux two enormous roles which they assume with incredible audacity. But beyond these performances nourished by the embraces, laughter and tears of youth, the film asserts itself as an ode to the simplest form of freedom and the most difficult to achieve, that of assuming who we are, without having to justify it. "What's my gender?" For the adolescent, questions about identity are ultra-relevent and Adèle Adèle Exarchopoulos, a school-girl from a working-class family in the suburbs of Lille, is of an age when the appetite for love and sexuality awakens. With a fondness for literature in an environment in which culture is virtually non-existent in conversations among girl-friends and at family dinners lulled by TV, she sooon feels uncomfortable in an adventure with a boy. For her life has changed since she happened to come across a girl with blue hair who unexpectedly invites herself into her erotic dreams. Somewhat lost in her desires and in a more or less unconscious search for this apparition, she is soon to find her and overcomes the aggressiveness of some of the school-girls "You'll never lick my pussy, you dirty dyke" before launching herself into the unknown territory of feminine homosexuality. Emma Léa Seydoux, the girl with blue hair, in her fourth year at the Fine Arts Academy, falls for Adèle's charm, gently keeping her at a distance at first "I'm one of those grown-ups who hang around in gay bars. I think we're rather different" before yielding to the alchemy of torrid bodies. Then begins the life of a couple that will gradually be fractured over the years by their vocations Adèle a teacher, Emma a designer and the gap that separates them in terms of ambitions, original backgrounds, education and their ways of envisaging happiness… While remaining true to the fundamental corpus the discovery of passion between women of the comic strip Le bleu est une couleur chaude on which he based his film, Abdellatif Kechiche evacuates almost all the aspects of lesbian militantism and the tragic dimension from his adaptation, in order to concentrate more fully on the sociological theme so dear to him the social gap and "melting pot" territories body to body, the pleasures of shared eating, demonstrations, parties and dancing, small classes in school etc.. His directing, which has become expert in the art of close-ups and movement delves deeply into the characters and examines the details of their feelings in long captivating sequences. The mastery and powerfulness of the sex scenes in particular go well beyond their pornographic dimension, simply offering portrayals of palpitating nature in its simplest expression. A transmutation also achieved by the transmission of numerous references in ideally rendered scenes of daily life, including The Life of Marianne by Marivaux the tale of a woman advancing towards and against everything, Antigone the "little" heroine one day deciding to say no and Sartre's Existentialism and Humanism. A whole which makes Blue is the Warmest Color a very great film, achieving spontaneous fusion between body and soul. Translated from French A Lot or a Little? What you will—and won't—find in this movie. What's the Story? In BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR, Adele has had her share of heartbreak and frustration when it comes to high school romance. She becomes intrigued by a young woman with blue hair whom she sees around town. Adele finally tracks Emma down, and the two strike up a friendship that turns into something much more. Through her relationship with Emma, Adele matures in many ways. But the lesson that one mistake can cost you everything is one she'll have to learn the hard way. Talk to Your Kids About ... Families can talk about the graphic sex in Blue Is the Warmest Color. How much is OK for kids to see? Does all the smoking make it seem glamorous or cool? Is it realistic? What are some of the dangers of smoking? Notice the pressure Adele feels from her friends at school and later from Emma's art-school friends. How do they differ, if at all? How do you respond to peer pressure? When Abdellatif Kechiche's lengthy and "freely inspired" adaptation of Julie Maroh's graphic novel Le bleu est une couleur chaude won the Palme d'Or at Cannes earlier this year, its two lead actresses were officially recognised in the citation alongside the director, an unprecedented acknowledgement of the defining role of the key cast that flew in the face of the festival's longstanding love affair with the haughty tenets of auterism. Certainly the performances by Léa Seydoux already an important screen presence and newcomer Adèle Exarchopoulos are extraordinary. Their portrayal of a blossoming, fragmenting relationship is shot through with genuine grace and conviction even when the film itself descends into titled La vie d'Adèle, chapitres 1 & 2, Kechiche's raw love story traces the formation and disintegration of a relationship so powerful that it transforms the life of its coming-of-age heroine. Exarchopoulos is Adèle, struggling to come to terms with her sexuality amid a culture of homophobic abuse until she meets blue-haired Emma Seydoux, an artist with a forthright sense of self. After the inevitable culture clashes played out in juxtaposed dinners with their respective families and social mismatches Emma's artisan crowd are quietly condescending towards aspiring schoolteacher Adèle, their relationship grows, changes, falters, reawakens. At times it ceases altogether, leaving Adèle to battle on alone in the wake of insurmountable and self-inflicted through it all we never doubt that the love between them is real, that they are both caught in the throes of an unruly, intoxicating passion that occasionally threatens to engulf and overwhelm its premiere in Cannes, much attention has been paid to the film's divisively explicit sex scenes, with Maroh herself likening the "brutal and surgical display of so-called lesbian sex" to heterosexual porn that a gay audience would find "ridiculous", and concluding damningly "As a feminist and a lesbian spectator, I can not endorse the direction Kechiche took on these matters."Equally troubling are the cast and crew's tales of mistreatment on set, with both lead actresses variously telling the press that they wouldn't work with Kechiche again. As Seydoux says "In France, the director has all the power… and in a way you're trapped. Thank God we won the Palme d'Or, because it was horrible." Kechiche has responded by calling Seydoux an "arrogant, spoilt child", amid mutterings of legal action. All of which somewhat undermines the film's apparently open-minded attitude toward its leads, although it's a credit to Exarchopoulos and Seydoux that not even this cloud can overshadow the weighty achievements of their believably intense and emotionally draining performances.