Blueis the Warmest Colour - film review. The best bits of this notoriously graphic romance occur in the second half, which is sex-free Blue is the Warmest Colour, fortunately, is built to last.
BlueIs the Warmest Color 2013, NC-17, 179 min. Directed by Abdellatif Kechiche. Starring Adèle Exarchopoulos, Léa Seydoux, Salim Kechiouche, Sandor Funtek, Mona Walravens, Benjamin Siksou ANew York Times bestsellerThe original graphic novel adapted into the film Blue Is the Warmest Color, winner of the Palme d'Or at the 2013 Cannes Film FestivalIn this tender, bittersweet, full-color graphic novel, a young woman named Clementine discovers herself and the elusive magic of love when she meets a confident blue-haired girl named Emma: a lesbian love story for the ages thatThefact that "Blue is the Warmest Color" takes three hours to tell its simple story suggests the failure of the director's method; any self-respecting Hollywood hack could trim an hour off the picture's inordinate length. His camera work exhibits the same unimaginative approach, filming almost everything at eye level, with innumerable tight
Adele(Adèle Exarchopoulos) in Abdellatif Kechiche's BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR. Courtesy of Sundance Selects. The recent trend to subject audiences to three-hour relationship films - "The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him and Her" and "Blue is the Warmest Color" - is somewhat baffling, considering these talk-heavy films are already a niche market and a tough sell, no matter DirectorAbdellatif Kechiche's film, "Blue is the Warmest Color," is a great example of how (since this style and its variations are so ubiquitous a distinction must be made between the aesthetic of Dogma influenced dramas and the commonly employed style of the "mockumentary" used to great effect in comedies that is basically a combination of Info 2013, 179'. Blue is the Warmest Color is Julie Maroh's first novel. A graphic novel showing a first work's tipical flaws, but that finds its strengths in the storyline and in the clear and touching overview. The story is split between present and past, mostly told through Clementine's diaries. Clementine is a teenager like many QDTCjbs.