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.
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. The film is released in North America on 25 October.ĭistributors Sundance Selects refused to cut the sex scenes so as to get a certificate that would have allowed minors to view it if accompanied by an adult.Follow Spielberg and the Cannes jury loved it. So that rules out Blue is the Warmest Colour, which contains a 10-minute sex scene, that took 10 days to shoot, between the two female stars, even though, as they told the Daily Beast, they used "fake pussies".
That's because it has a drinks licence and Idaho's law on selling alcohol has a string of conditions attached, one of them being what the Boise Weekly describes as "the Gem State's most blatant forms of censorship".Īs well as detailed instructions on what body parts employees must keep covered up, Idaho Code 23-614 bans licence-holders from showing films showing: Other cinemas are even less likely to show an interest, the weekly says.īlue is the Warmest Colour, which won the Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or, can be viewed by anyone over 12 in France, where it came out this week.īut in the US it has an under-18 certificate and The Flicks dare not show any NC-17 films, as they are known in the US.