La Vie D'Adèle

English Title:	Blue Is The Warmest Colour
Year:	2013
Country:	Europe
Language:	French
Genre:	Drama, Romance
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Rating:	5.0 Rate
Collection:	Seen It Wishlist
Community:	1 Has Seen


Director	Abdellatif Kechiche
Selected Cast	Léa Seydoux as Emma
	Adèle Exarchopoulos as Adèle
	Salim Kechiouche as Samir
	Aurélien Recoing as Père Adèle

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Blue Is The Warmest Colour - Artificial Eye - UK (2014)

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Blue Is The Warmest Colour - Umbrella Entertainment - Australia (2022)

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Magic Marmalade 21st May 2023		Rated 5/10 A masterpiece trapped inside an abomination. This is another one of those movies that less, certainly would have amounted to so much more. In this case... less sex. I know, how very prudish or puritanical of me! Certainly, I've never been one to consider myself as such, but find myself having more and more reason for complaint as I get older. ...And it's not, as I say, for reasons of moral indignation, but rather, for actual storytelling, and movie making reasons that I find myself infuriated by these kinds of films: All the extra time you spend dwelling, or fixating on the sex, is, for me, time you are not telling an actual story, and cutting into the natural storytelling rhythms, that can make a movie more sublime, poetic, and well rounded, as well as more dramatic, poignant, meaningful, and impactful. For this could have been beautiful. ...A subtly, and deftly told coming of age story of a young teen girl struggling to get to grips with her sexual awakening, as well as her sexuality. Set among the classroom peer pressures of highschool life, where she feels compelled to contain all these feelings, until she ventures out one night, and meets an slightly older, artistic, pseudo-intellectual type young gay woman, who she is instantly smitten with, if not slightly overawed by, and with whom she strikes up a freindship. leading to the inevitable relationship, and even "love". So it is in essence, a coming of age lesbian love story. ... so far, so good. .....But then..... damn! Basically, they spend extensive sessions of awkward porn style pretzel sex bouts, which go on way too long... (So as you find yourself checking your watch, as well as forgetting there was a story going on somewhere there, that for some - ahem - reason completely went out of my mind) ... as well as being disturbingly graphic... to the extent that if this is not actual sex, but merely simulated, then I struggle to see the point in having bothered to simulate it. And of course, I see after a couple of attempts to watch this film, and get past the idea that it's just some creepy voyeuristic heterosexual male director / filmmaker using "making a movie" merely as an excuse to exploit young actresses for his own personal pleasure. It feels dishonest. ...And makes you feel grubby, and like you are participating in this exploitation just by watching it take place - like you tacitly agree with this - which I do not. The worst thing is, on more than one occasion, a momentary, involuntary glance at camera from one of these actresses which seems to speak of confusion and uncertainty about what they have been asked to do, only hammers this horrible feeling home to you the viewer. It feels like witnessing a crime to watch it. Now, the overall plot, and point of the movie is actually a really good one - in that two people who "fall in love" despite some very apparent differences between them, may well be confusing sex with love, or even infatuation with love... to the extent that I begin to suspect this is not about love, or even a gay relationship, or even a healthy sexual relationship, but more a tale of addiction. Sexual addiction, and a shared, and mutual sexual addiction at that. This is then essentially a tale of two sex junkies, addicted to each other, and don't know how to control this need in themselves, or square it to their lives. Actually quite a tragic tale. And told on it's own, could have been a classic, indeed, a masterpiece. Unfortunately, it's trapped inside an unnecessarily absurd, over-long, overly- graphic, grubby series of porn flick episodes that totally detract from a, kill the wonderful tragic tale beneath. Again... not a prude, I just feel that if a director feels he wants to make porn, then do so, you only need ten minutes of that everyone consenting, everybody happy, and you need not then try to pretend it's "drama", and porn doesn't need a Shakespearean plot under it. Get in, get out, go home - wham, bam.... etc (so to speak) But at least this would then be honest about, and with itself. And at a three hour runtime, I do not exaggerate to say you could, by means of editorial excavation, lose at least half hour to forty five minutes of unnecessary movie flab, and porn, still make your points about the nature of their relationship, and have brilliant movie as the end result. But as it is, it is too uncomfortable a watch. 3 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?

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