Blue is the warmest colour 2
Jean-Claude Brisseau received a one-year suspended prison sentence and fines of nearly 25,000 euros for sexually harassing two actresses while preparing his 2002 film Choses secrètes (Secret Things). Kechiche is not the only French director to be accused of criminal badgering. Does that constitute an auteur’s meticulous methods - or a man’s abuse of the women working for him? The 800 hours of footage that Kechiche reportedly shot for Blue, which is essentially a two-person film, would have worn down its stars. That film might also be charged with exploiting the indignities it intends to condemn and defiling its lead actress, Yahima Torres. ( MORE: TIME’s Review of Blue Is the Warmest Color from Cannes)īorn in Tunis and raised in Nice, just down the Riviera from Cannes, Kechiche set his first notable film, L’Esquive (Games of Love and Chance), among rambunctious teenagers who also study Marivaux, and he won notoriety for his 2010 Vénus noire (Black Venus), a biopic of a South African woman who is exhibited as a freak - the “Hottentot Venus” - in early 19th century Paris. Kechiche went on the defensive, essentially calling Seydoux a spoiled brat and saying that the film ‘shouldn’t be released, it has been soiled too much.'” On her blog, called it ‘a brutal and surgical display, exuberant and cold, of so-called lesbian sex, which turned into porn.’ Then Exarchopoulos and Seydoux gave a number of claiming that Kechiche’s mode of working was abusive, and that he demanded take after take of difficult sequences, including the sex scenes. As Stephanie Zacharek itemizes the charges in the Village Voice, complaints “piled in, some from people involved in the making of the movie. The adoration for Blue has not been unanimous. Often, the two types converge and collide as one couple. Some lovers imagine they will find forever partners others realize that people’s priorities and affiliations change. Their affair spans about five years, during which Adèle realizes her ambition of becoming a grade-school teacher and Emma secures a few gallery shows (which include sketches of Adèle). She is more comfortable and expert with herself than with a male classmate who pursues and adores her until they have a brief affair that she cuts off.Īroused by her first lesbian kiss, from a girl who later says she meant it only as a joke, Adèle meets blue-haired Emma, who’s studying fine arts but is already a practiced seducer. In Kechiche’s coming-of-age, coming-out film, Adèle, the modern Marianne, also wrestles with her burgeoning sexuality. I tell my story,” begins the Marivaux novel The Life of Marianne, which the 15-year-old Adèle is studying at her Lille high school. (MORE: Should Younger Teens Be Allowed to See This NC-17 Movie?) Clearly, Kechiche saw star quality in Exarchopoulos. The director even changed the main character’s name (from Clémentine) to his leading lady’s.
And Kechiche transforms Julie Maroh’s graphic novel into a (graphic) passion poem to Exarchopoulos’ torrential emotional resources. Two actresses - Exarchopoulos as the high school girl Adèle and Seydoux as the older art student Emma - hungrily explore every aspect and orifice of lesbian love in several explicit bedroom sequences.
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Have you seen Eternity and a Day (1998), The Son’s Room (2001), Elephant (2003) or Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010)? But Blue Is the Warmest Color, which is based on a graphic novel, made instant news as the movie with the borderline-pornographic sex scenes. Not every Palme d’Or winner repeats its Cannes success abroad. The director … let the scenes play in real life, and we were absolutely spellbound.” At a press conference after the ceremony, Spielberg called Blue “a great love story that made all of us feel privileged to be a fly on the wall, to see this story of deep love and deep heartbreak evolve from the beginning. as Blue Is the Warmest Color, and his stars Adèle Exarchopoulos and Léa Seydoux rushed to the stage to accept their prizes and exchange hugs, smiles and tears. At the closing of this May’s festival, he announced his and his colleagues’ decision to award the Palme d’Or to “three artists: Adèle, Léa and Abdellatif.” Abdellatif Kechiche, director of La vie d’Adèle: Chapitre 1 et 2 (The Life of Adèle: Chapters 1 and 2), now released in the U.S. Follow Spielberg and the Cannes jury loved it.