LosAngeles critics consecrate Blue is the Warmest Colour. Strangely ignored at the European Films Awards, the winner of Cannes' Palme d'Or begins to reap a sheaf of awards across the Atlantic . 09/12/2013 | Awards | France Blueis the Warmest Color Blu-ray Review. Young Adèle catches a sight of a girl with blue hair, and that passing glimpse precipitates a journey of sexual and identity discovery that heaves and crests with emotional power, sexual uninhibitedness, and a magnifying glass at the sparkle, confusion, destabilization and navigation of love lost experienced by Adèle. BlueIs the Warmest Color 2013 ½. 26. This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth. starvengers challenge movie. AJ is using Letterboxd to share film reviews and lists with friends. Join here. Share this review. Adeganvulgar di film ini terasa sangat manusiawi, terasa sangat dekat dalam kenyataan dalam film ini. Film yang berdurasi tiga jam ini benar-benar menyita perhatian saya. Di film ini ga ada perdebatan apakah homoseksual salah atau benar, ga ada pula drama coming out seperti film-film dengan tema serupa lainnya. Meskipun begitu, bukan berarti isu tersebut hilang gitu aja. BlueIs the Warmest Colour (French: La Vie d'Adèle - Chapitres 1 & 2; French pronunciation: [la vi dadɛl ʃapitʁ œ̃n‿e dø]) is a 2013 French romantic coming-of-age drama film directed by Abdellatif Kechiche, and produced by Kechiche, Brahim Chioua, and Vincent Maraval.The screenplay also co-written by Kechiche was based on Jul Maroh's 2010 graphic novel of the same name. Fearless relatable and beautiful, this is one of the year's best. Holding you so close for so long, you won't want to break free. Read full review. 100. Steven Rea Nov 1, 2013. Blue Is the Warmest Color explores a life with a depth and force that would be scary - if it weren't so scarily good. Read full review. Blueis the Warmest Color is a work of delightfully layered sophistication, a movie you want to follow out even further than the sand and sunshine, all the way out into the deep blue ocean sea. Laremy Legel is a member of the Online Film Critic's Society, wrote a book about being a film crtiic , and traveled among the Juggaloes for 60 hours Lu4Yfh. Watched Jun 12, 2020 Hmg’s review published on Letterboxd I have slightly mixed feelings on this one. The choice to have almost entirely handheld cinematography added to the intimacy of the story and went along well with the realistic dialogue and stellar performances. There’s also really stylish and smart use of colour. I can feel the relationship between the characters build in the beginning as well as see her connections with her friends. This fades away as the film progresses. Although I like the characters, I don’t emotionally connect with them as strongly as I think I should. This is, in prt, because I get lost in the time frame of the film. It feels like substantial chunks of the story are missing and, although I understand the character development, I don’t feel it. Also, and this goes especially to the dialogue and characters, the film started off incredibly well, but after the first major timejump, began to lose me. I really wasn’t feeling the runtime at all, until I did and it weighed the film down near the end. Specially as we approach the final scene that has no finality and I don’t mean that as an open-ending. It just doesn’t feel like an ending Overall I think it’s a solid film, but deeply flawed in areas it shouldn’t be. Block or Report Rewatched Apr 17, 2021 Darren Carver-Balsiger’s review published on Letterboxd Cinema can only be judged in relation to the context in which you watch it. I first saw Blue is the Warmest Colour as a teenager and it deeply affected me. I also remember rewatching the second half at around 3am on some drunken night at university when everything had gone wrong, which admittedly was quite often at university. It's been over five years since then and I haven't seen it since. It's weird to look back at films that meant a lot to you and realise they might not hold up. With maturity I'm now more attuned to the criticisms of Blue is the Warmest Colour, especially those from the lesbian community. Yet this film still means a lot to me. Obviously I approach this film as a man, but I think Blue is the Warmest Colour taps into so much more about growth and early adulthood than just lesbian love, and so it has a lot of universality. I know that the conditions on set during filming were unacceptable, and I'd rather the film didn't exist than be made through harassment and violating labour laws. However in the contexts in which I previously watched Blue is the Warmest Colour, I found it to be the most profound and precious experience. Watching it now, I don't feel quite the same. But even with that caveat, it's hard to stop loving something that used to really matter to you. No matter what I will always hold Blue is the Warmest Colour in high of growing up and self-discovery can be so compelling if done right. In Blue is the Warmest Colour, the pain that lead character Adèle goes through seems so real and believable. I think it's because so much is naturalistic. Adèle's runny nose, tears, and messy eating all feel like something usually avoided in a world where cinema usually demands people look perfect. Here we see truly messy, irrational people. They're flawed, unsure of themselves, and get attached to each other in damaging ways. With a constantly pressing camera that captures all the awkward and small moments of life, Blue is the Warmest Colour is intoxicatingly intimate. I could get lost in its world is the Warmest Colour is about an intense love, one that begins almost from first sight. It makes desire complicated, depicting the initial nervous joy of love and also the pain of its deterioration. Adèle's journey through life and confusion is easy to feel, because it seems so real and relatable to the process of entering adulthood. It's also worth saying that this felt like a much more radical film in 2013, dealing with a lesbian relationship and homophobia in a more accessible and mainstream way than a lot of things before. It paved the way for Cannes to accept later films like Carol, The Handmaiden, and Portrait of a Lady on a sizeable class element to Blue is the Warmest Colour. Adèle, with her working class origins and job as a teacher, finds herself lonely in a relationship with Emma, a privileged woman trying to make it as an artist. As Emma cruises through life, Adèle must always do the hard work. In long sequences of art students discussing philosophy, Adèle is an ordinary person reduced to serving drinks. The use of a food is a constant in Blue is the Warmest Colour, used to define class and set boundaries as to who belongs in which group. Emma thinks work cannot make Adèle happy, expecting or demanding Adèle to be artistic and not practical. This is a film of making mistakes when trying to find happiness, and Adèle having to realise that as time passes the people around her are unaccepting. Part of me feels like Blue is the Warmest Colour is a critique of these privileged, detached, pretentious artfucks. Adèle should not conform to their wants, but instead be herself. Adèle spends years heartbroken and stagnating, but the film's ending is perhaps a sign of her breaking away from that and moving on. I am of the opinion that the breakup scene between Emma and Adèle is reason enough to consider this a masterpiece. It is one of the best scenes of the past decade and devastates me every time I see it. It reduces Adèle to a screaming child, seeming so pathetic, and yet it is so heartbreaking. In fact, the whole final hour is masterful and the conclusion perfectly understated. When the end credits roll, I feel emotionally destroyed. Even now, when the film impacts me less, it still hits me hard. Emma and Adèle are always at different stages in their lives, and so the final scenes are inevitable. Weirdly I too am at a different stage in my life and so I increasingly feel more satisfied by the ending which keeps them least interesting moments of Blue is the Warmest Colour are the sex scenes, but they are the thing I see the most frequently discussed, which is a shame. They are rather distancing and cold, which is quite unlike everything else. There's no denying that the sexual imagery is near pornographic and essentially elevated male gaze art. Yet while this may be an inaccurate and problematic representation, I find those scenes work as a metaphor for the intensity of the central relationship. They also represent an eroticised ideal that cannot be realised or sustain itself, and indeed the characters outgrow it. Emma moves on even though she acknowledges that her new partner does not match Adèle sexually. I think Blue is the Warmest Colour ends up with a double-edged sword, as the sex scenes are the worst thing in the film, but without them the film wouldn't be what it is. The film would not function as an examination of sexuality or one about finding identity through sex. It's also a film without sentimentality for sex, presenting it as a matter of fact without shame nor judgment. Women are far more able to critique those scenes than me, but as the sex scenes make up such a small part of the runtime I find it sad that they overshadow so much else that is great in Blue is the Warmest is the Warmest Colour is one of the best films I know of when it comes to capturing the awkward transition from teenager to adult. As I have changed and grown up, the film works in different ways for me. It is a work about finding yourself, rejecting what others assume of you, and learning to ride through complicated feelings. It is real and rich in detail. There are problems in how this film was made, but in the context I exist in now Blue is the Warmest Colour still deeply moves my heart and I cannot reject its RankedMy Top Films of the 2010s Block or Report Darren liked these reviews So rarely does a film perfectly encapsulate the epic journey of a single relationship. The fevered anticipation of meeting someone interesting; the enveloping ravenous lust that takes over when everything is so exciting and so new; the slow-building love and admiration for another person; the inevitable mistakes that lead to impending despair; and the heartbreaking regret of what could have been. 'Blue is the Warmest Color,' is adapted from Julie March's graphic novel "Blue Angel." In the film, Adele Adele Exarchopoulos is a young, confused French teen. Like many teens she struggles to find an identity within her group of friends. At the beginning she's unsure of herself around her friends. She tries to fit in, sidling up to the fringe of the group, laughing with them, smoking with them, but never really interacting with them. Adele's life is all surface deep up to this point. She's searching for something more, but this is all she's got to work with. Until, one day, she spots a blue-haired beauty on the street. Adele is mesmerized. The girl with blue hair is Emma Lea Seydoux. It's easy to tell that Emma is a lesbian, but up until this point we aren't sure what Adele is. She's attracted immediately to Emma, but it takes her a while to come to grips with her own sexuality. What transpires is a beautiful journey of one girl trying to figure out who she is, and another girl who finds love in all the wrong places. What's so intoxicating about 'Blue is the Warmest Color' is watching Adele grow from a teenager to a woman seamlessly. The movie covers a wide expanse of time – how much we're not really sure – and Adele grows right along with it. With minimal makeup and costume changes, Adele appears to age as the movie presses on toward its lengthy 179 minute runtime. Exarchopoulos shows some astonishing acting skill by making us believe that she's really growing and evolving from a girl to a woman. It's a slow, but deliberate and rewarding process. Much has been made of 'Blue is the Warmest Color's graphic sex scenes. The movie earned an NC-17 rating, and rightly so. The scenes are graphic, but they play a part in the overall story. Here's a girl who has been so reserved for so long, she's finally ready to let loose. Then she finds this mysterious, sexy stranger and everything falls into place. It's a fever dream of skin and passion. Sadly, because of these scenes the movie has been written off by some as "that lesbian movie." In the age of the Internet those scenes, which amount to only a fraction of the film, have garnered the most comment. Are we all not human? Haven't we, at one time or another felt that kind of unbridled passion? Maybe we haven't, but others have. Where some have derided these scenes as pornographic, or over the top, I see two women who have finally found each other and they want to express their love for one another. Sex, seems like a great outlet for that, don't you think? I can't remember the last time I saw such an effective, and engrossing, coming-of-age story. It felt real, and unfiltered. A deep and intimate look at a single tumultuous relationship between two people. The dangers of unchecked desire, and how easy it is to hurt the ones you care about. 'Blue is the Warmest Color' was one of my favorite films from last year. Blu-ray Vital Disc Stats Criterion has released 'Blue is the Warmest Color' on a single 50GB Blu-ray Disc. Housed in Criterion's trademark clear case, this release comes with a spine number of 695, and a foldout. The foldout contains an essay entitled "Feeling Blue" by B. Ruby Rich, editor of Film Quarterly. There's also the standard notes about the cast, the transfer, and production notes. 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?

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