Blue is the Warmest Colour

Looper007 · 10-03-2014 11:31PM

IamtheWalrus wrote: »

Just watched this. The Adele character was the best piece of acting I've seen in years. Great movie.

A disgrace she wasn't up for best actress at the Oscars or Bafta's. Love me some Cate Blachett but no way was it better then Adèle Exarchopoulos's performance.

out of the two leading actresses, I think Adèle Exarchopoulos is the better actresses. I think Léa Seydoux will be the bigger star.

Both have a bright future anyway.

Telecaster58 · 13-03-2014 12:17PM

I watched the film and found it unnecessarily long. The whole concept behind it is interesting and the two leads were very impressive. That said I am a bit suspicious of a film that casts two women who look like that in the leads. I could not see the film being made if, instead of "lipstick lesbians" the film was about a couple of less attractive women

Sad Professor · 13-03-2014 12:34PM

You could criticise almost any heterosexual romance for the same thing. Audiences like watching attractive people, be they gay or straight. Had the film depicted two unattractive butch lesbians it would have been criticised for stereotyping. In any case, Seydoux’s character is no lipstick lesbian and Adèle is assumedly bisexual.

Funkfield · 02-07-2014 02:49PM

Watched this with Mrs. Funkfield the other night. Absolutely stunning movie for the acting alone, particularly Adele. I honestly did not feel the time pass. We were blown away.

Zwillinge · 06-08-2014 11:39AM

Sorry if old thread, but I watched this recently (Over two nights, I started it too late on a school night) but was blown away with the acting and story - absolutely fantastic and I'm really not one for slow films.

Really felt for the characters and found some of their story rateable. Great stuff!

takamichinoku · 06-08-2014 11:48AM

I'd love to get a chance to see some of yer man's earlier films in a cinema, Blue is the Warmest Colour's 3 hours of relentless closeups was extremely impressive. Feel like Kechiche has been slighted a bit in the reviews because of how much of a prick he was when making it, it really sounds like he was extremely hands on in the whole thing and the results are magnificent.

Adele Exarchupahulabulaarcados was really bloody impressive, some of the scenes where she was upset seemed extremely realistic, a kind of upset I've never seen on screen before; almost took me out of it a bit wondering whether yer man Kechiche just beat it out of her but the results were very successful.
Lea Seydoux was equally good, probably had a more difficult character to pull of tbh but she more than delivered in the scenes she needed to.

Man, just thinking back on it now, it was a ridiculously good film!

pheasant tail · 06-08-2014 07:57PM

Agreed, just looking back at the trailer and I had forgotten how much I liked it, them close-ups and facial expressions of Adele were excellent. Not sure about the Irish but it's definetly on the US Netflix for anyone who hasn't seen it

Looper007 · 06-08-2014 11:25PM

takamichinoku wrote: »

Adele Exarchupahulabulaarcados was really bloody impressive, some of the scenes where she was upset seemed extremely realistic, a kind of upset I've never seen on screen before; almost took me out of it a bit wondering whether yer man Kechiche just beat it out of her but the results were very successful.
Lea Seydoux was equally good, probably had a more difficult character to pull of tbh but she more than delivered in the scenes she needed to.

Well Sean Penn seems to agree with you and he's cast her as his lead in his next Directorial film. It's still shocking she didn't get nominated for Oscars or Baftas for best actress , she didn't even win best actress in her own country film awards (she won best newcomer). Shocking stuff. One of the best performances in years even more impressive for her age.

Seydoux has done alright for herself starring in the awesome The Grand Budapest Hotel, although it wasn't a star grabbing performance. Beauty and The Beast with Vincent Cassel and Grand Central with Tahar Rahim. She's getting meatier roles in France.

takamichinoku · 06-08-2014 11:35PM

Looper007 wrote: »

Well Sean Penn seems to agree with you and he's cast her as his lead in his next Directorial film. It's still shocking she didn't get nominated for Oscars or Baftas for best actress , she didn't even win best actress in her own country film awards (she won best newcomer). Shocking stuff. One of the best performances in years even more impressive for her age.

Seydoux has done alright for herself starring in the awesome The Grand Budapest Hotel, although it wasn't a star grabbing performance. Beauty and The Beast with Vincent Cassel and Grand Central with Tahar Rahim. She's getting meatier roles in France.

I did also give that caveat that it could be wrong to understate Kechiche's involvement in the performances, would really have to see her in some other things. There could be something of an underlying thought among a lot of people who voted in those things who dismissed her a bit on account of that?

Seydoux was in MI: Ghost Protocol, wasn't she? Pretty much French A-list before Blue ever came out afaik.

SimonTemplar · 07-08-2014 06:57PM

She was also one of the French farmer's daughters at the beginning of Inglorious Bastards

beks101 · 02-09-2014 12:57PM

I just watched this last night, having heard nothing about the storm of controversy it provoked and not even knowing much about the subject matter at hand. Frankly, it appeared on Netflix and I had three hours to kill.

I am still reeling today. It didn’t feel like a movie, it felt like an experience. It felt like an invasion on my part of two people’s privacy, of these deeply intimate, erotic, lustful and profoundly honest moments between two individuals as they fall in love and their world changes. It was a revelation.

The sex scenes were graphic, and raw, and real and quite shocking - but in the context of this deep, unbridled love and passion these two women share, I think they were quite fitting. The very human reaction between two people when sexual and intellectual and spiritual connection occurs. The lack of control and the longing and wanting and needing and obsessive compulsive urge to get inside their skin - that’s what these scenes were, moreso than gratuitous and tacky and anything else. They indeed were ‘too much’ - but so too is the kind of romantic love they fall into. That’s what I took from it.

I’ll be thinking about this movie for a while. I think it’s the most honest thing I’ve seen on a screen in a long time.

Harry Palmr · 23-04-2016 10:41PM

Film4 are showing this next week (or this week if you are reading this from Sunday!), its part of "sex" season - Lars Von Triers Nympho 1 and 2, The Duke of Burgandy and few others are also featured.

MilesMorales1 · 24-04-2016 12:12PM

I've literally had this on my shelf for a year, still haven't watched it. Need to get round to it.

WhiteMemento9 · 27-07-2018 03:24PM

beks101 wrote: »

I just watched this last night, having heard nothing about the storm of controversy it provoked and not even knowing much about the subject matter at hand. Frankly, it appeared on Netflix and I had three hours to kill.

I am still reeling today. It didn’t feel like a movie, it felt like an experience. It felt like an invasion on my part of two people’s privacy, of these deeply intimate, erotic, lustful and profoundly honest moments between two individuals as they fall in love and their world changes. It was a revelation.

The sex scenes were graphic, and raw, and real and quite shocking - but in the context of this deep, unbridled love and passion these two women share, I think they were quite fitting. The very human reaction between two people when sexual and intellectual and spiritual connection occurs. The lack of control and the longing and wanting and needing and obsessive compulsive urge to get inside their skin - that’s what these scenes were, moreso than gratuitous and tacky and anything else. They indeed were ‘too much’ - but so too is the kind of romantic love they fall into. That’s what I took from it.

I’ll be thinking about this movie for a while. I think it’s the most honest thing I’ve seen on a screen in a long time.

I caught this by pure accident the other night on Film4 having never gotten around to watching it. I had to find the thread to see the kind of reaction as much like yourself it left me reeling.

One thread which I haven't seen discussed ITT which the film pulls at very well is the battle between artistic endeavor and the need to making a living. The difference between the families and their view on life which contributed to the difference in worldview that both women had as a result. One family very much pro pursuing passion and the other very much rooted in the practicalities of life.

The line about fearing insecurity was particularly poignant in this regard. The difference between living but with huge uncertainty or never really living driven by fear and the need to make a living.

It is a complete joy of a film.

Sad Professor · 27-07-2018 03:59PM

WhiteMemento9 wrote: »

I caught this by pure accident the other night on Film4 having never gotten around to watching it. I had to find the thread to see the kind of reaction as much like yourself it left me reeling.

One thread which I haven't seen discussed ITT which the film pulls at very well is the battle between artistic endeavor and the need to making a living. The difference between the families and their view on life which contributed to the difference in worldview that both women had as a result. One family very much pro pursuing passion and the other very much rooted in the practicalities of life.

The line about fearing insecurity was particularly poignant in this regard. The difference between living but with huge uncertainty or never really living driven by fear and the need to make a living.

It is a complete joy of a film.

Notice also how Adele is always eating. There's probably a fetishistic quality to it, but it illustrates how she comes from a background where food wasn't taken for granted. You also get an interesting insight into the French upper-middle classes who by contrast see themselves as being above material concerns, always talking about culture and philosophy etc. Also isn't Adele more concerned with socio-economic issues like education etc where as Seydoux's character is into gay rights? Reinforces how their materialist vs post-materialist perspectives were informed by their social class.

Must re-watch it and pay more attention to this.

IamtheWalrus · 28-07-2018 10:54PM

Sad Professor wrote: »

Notice also how Adele is always eating. There's probably a fetishistic quality to it, but it illustrates how she comes from a background where food wasn't taken for granted. You also get an interesting insight into the French upper-middle classes who by contrast see themselves as being above material concerns, always talking about culture and philosophy etc. Also isn't Adele more concerned with socio-economic issues like education etc where as Seydoux's character is into gay rights? Reinforces how their materialist vs post-materialist perspectives were informed by their social class.

Must re-watch it and pay more attention to this.

Think I'll rewatch too.

Blue is the Warmest Colour

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