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In the context of the movie itself it felt like a misstep. 'It felt like a lexicon of what people think lesbians would do. I think that makes it a quite poignant and sad film and a much more interesting film than the one everyone wants to talk about, which is the film of a girl who has an affair with another woman.'Īs for the sex scene, she describes it as 'a bit like watching a lesbian Kama Sutra'. 'Adele's journey in the movie is not her realisation that she's a lesbian, but her revelation that she's only a stepping stone in someone else's advancement. She cites the complete absence of a coming out scene in the film as one of the ways it cops out. It's simply that the film's claims to proposing something unique about its depiction of a same-sex relationship and which somehow make it a "lesbian" or "gay" film aren't really sustainable.' 'The point of this is not to say that gay or lesbian relationships can't be like straight relationships in some way. What people think lesbians would do.ĭeakin University film scholar Deb Verhoeven says that the test of a film that fails to deal with gay themes in any deep or interesting way is to see if the central relationship could still work with heterosexual characters.
It is clearly marketed as a sexually charged lesbian love story. She also describes the seven minute sex scene midway through as 'ridiculous'.įor me, Kechiche captures masterfully what it's like to be drunk with love and find yourself hit by unexpected disappointments.īut this isn't enough for those critics concerned that the film doesn't address the issues it raises. He is obsessed by her mouth: the lips that never quite close, the sensual overbite.īut the criticism directed at him, not least from the writer of the graphic novel on which the film is based, Julie Maroh, is that the film is too straight (neither of the actresses are lesbians). Kechiche puts her on screen scoffing a plate of spaghetti bolognaise in close up, and makes her lick her knife clean. It's no accident Adele eats so much in the film. Graphic novel author Julie Maroh says the film is too straight.
She exudes awkward desire and irrepressible hunger. Adele is raw and sincere.īoth actresses are formidable, but it's Exarchopoulos’s performance as the younger woman that powers the story. Emma is mysterious and cultured, but also capable of pragmatism. The story of a high school girl named Adele who falls for a punkish artist a few years older named Emma, it's a coming of age drama that pairs innocence with experience. Clearly, Blue is the Warmest Colour was not fun to make. It was a remarkable moment because the jury, headed by the notoriously prudish Steven Spielberg, had insisted they share the award with their director.īut filmmaking is a game of high and lows. Only hours earlier they’d been shedding tears of joy and sharing hugs on the red carpet as they accepted the prize for best film along with director Abdellatif Kechiche, the first women to do so since Jane Campion won for The Piano in 1993.