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Blue Is the Warmest Color (The Criterion Collection) [DVD]
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Genre | Gay & Lesbian, Drama |
Format | Multiple Formats, AC-3, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen |
Contributor | Baya Rehaz, Elizabeth Craig, Camille Rutherford, Benjamin Siksou, Olivier Thery-Lapiney, Wisdom Ayanou, Alcatraz Films, Catherine Salee, Maelys Cabezon, Peter Assogbavi, JTrTmie Laheurte, Manon Piette, Quentin Medrinal, Virginie Morgny, Sandrine Paraire, Justine Nissart, Ad le Exarchopoulos, Mona Walravens, Fanny Maurin, Philippe Potier, Laurence Clerc, Sandor Funtek, Mickael Skal, Aurelie Lemanceau, Flavie De Murat, Audrey Deswarte, Vincent Gaeta, Karim Saidi, Alma Jodorowski, Marilyne Chanaud, Abdellatif Kechiche, Samir Bella, Tom Hurier, AdTle Exarchopoulos, Lucie Bibal, Salim Kechiouche, Jeremie Laheurte, Alma Jodorowsky, Aurelien Recoing, Stephane Mercoyrol, Léa Seydoux See more |
Language | French |
Number Of Discs | 1 |
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The colorful, electrifying romance that took the Cannes Film Festival by storm courageously dives into a young woman's experiences of first love and sexual awakening. BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR stars the remarkable newcomer Adele Exarchopoulos as a high school'er who, much to her own surprise, plunges into a thrilling relationship with a female twenty something art student, played by La Seydoux (MIDNIGHT IN PARIS). Directed by Abdellatif Kechiche (THE SECRET OF THE GRAIN), this finely detailed, intimate epic sensitively renders the erotic abandon of youth. It has captivated international audiences and been widely embraced as a defining love story for the new century.
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- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : NC-17 (Adults Only)
- Product Dimensions : 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 2.72 ounces
- Item model number : 28934672
- Director : Abdellatif Kechiche
- Media Format : Multiple Formats, AC-3, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
- Run time : 2 hours and 59 minutes
- Release date : February 25, 2014
- Actors : Ad le Exarchopoulos, Jeremie Laheurte, Léa Seydoux, AdTle Exarchopoulos, Lucie Bibal
- Subtitles: : English
- Producers : Laurence Clerc, Alcatraz Films, Olivier Thery-Lapiney
- Studio : Criterion Collection
- ASIN : B00GPPXNIK
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #19,486 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #3,176 in Drama DVDs
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Based on the wonderful award-winning graphic novel by Julie Maroh, BLUE is the story of Adele (Adele Excharopoulos), who begins the film as a naturally beautiful 15-year-old high school student who is just trying to do her best to stay uneaten in the feeding frenzy of adolescence. She keeps with her friends; she dates a cute boy; she pleases her working-class parents; she does well in school. But all that changes one day when she walks across a street, and sees Emma (Lea Seydoux), a haunting and beautiful older college student with dyed blue hair. They share a gaze, and in that instant, Adele is transfixed. She can barely move. She has really felt that thing we all look for: love at first sight. After losing her virginity with her boyfriend as an attempt to deny her "abnormal" feellings, she clearly doesn't feel the love and desire for him that she wants to, and breaks it off with him. Through a sequence of events, she has a chance meeting with Emma at a gay bar, and they become friends. The friendship clearly blossoms into something more, and their passions reach a fever pitch as they make love for the first time. They begin a relationship that is hidden from Adele's family and friends, but is open and accepted by Emma's. The relationship spans several years from Adele's student days and to her becoming a teacher of kindergarteners, and Emma changes from starving artist to toast of the town. But their relationship has problems. Despite the length of time they've spent together, they seem to be losing one another. Does love overcome, or is the passion of youth weighed down by the practicality of adulthood?
When this film was presented with the Palme D'or, the highest award at the Cannes Film Festival, it wasn't just presented to director Kechiche, but also to leads Excharopoulos (this is her first major film role) and Seydoux (who some filmgoers might recognize from American films like MIDNIGHT IN PARIS or MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: GHOST PROTOCOL) and the reasoning behind that is that they were all equal parts of what makes this film so remarkable. Kechiche directs the film using a lot of close-ups, allowing the audience very much in the lives and minds of the characters that inhabit the film. He also spares the audience any obvious artistic flourishes. There is barely any soundtrack to the film that isn't ambient sound from the settings within the film, so there are no music cues that instruct the audience how to feel. But Kechiche's skill behind the camera pales in comparison to what is possibly one of the most revelatory screen debuts I've ever seen, and that is from Excharopoulos, who so bares herself in both body and soul that it may be one of the singularly most immersive performances I've seen since Charlize Theron's amazing turn in MONSTER. Seydoux is as close to Excharopoulos's level as possible, which is an obvious challenge, but she plays the wiser, edgier and more experienced Emma close to perfection opposite Adele's wide-eyed, voracious youth, hungry for knowledge, experience and love.
Both regretfully and triumphantly, the film's most talked-about sequence is a nearly 10-minute love scene between Adele and Emma which, while being graphic (but not unsimulated), is exciting, erotic, tender, a little clumsy, and beautiful. It gives the film its NC-17 rating, and I regret that it's the scene that most articles and reviews tend to bring up, but I also think it's a triumph because no one has talked this way about an NC-17 film since the film that effectively killed the rating being taken seriously, and that is Paul Verhoeven's SHOWGIRLS. Another thing that is brought up in regards to this film is the seemingly endless war of words between Kechiche and his two leads, but more than anything, that's just fodder for the gossip columns and not worth the time to remark on it any further.
For fans of the graphic novel, there are certainly differences that will surprise and possibly disappoint them. A major plot point is dropped from this film in favor of something that seems more realistic, and that actually works in the film's favor, however, if how the film plays out is how it played out in the graphic novel, it would not have worked. It's best to think of them as two separate but equally amazing pieces of art that share a great deal, but one story works better in the graphic novel, and one works better in the film.
To me, this is the most romantic film since Ang Lee's BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, and let me qualify that statement. Yes, they are both romance epics about same-sex love, but for whatever reason, I haven't seen another film between the masterpiece of BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN in 2005 and this film in 2013 that reflects what it truly feels to be in love, and is also so achingly beautiful and sad and heartfelt and real as we watch the relationship progress, flourish and disintegrate through time.
BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR is certainly one of the very best films of the year and possibly of the decade, and has what is certainly to be the two best female performances in recent years. I can only hope that Exarchopolous and Seydoux are remembered and rightfully recognized during Oscar season.
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Reviewed in Mexico on February 1, 2024