Review | Blue is the Warmest Color

Cannes festival winner, Blue is the hottest color (La Vie d'Adèle) is a beautiful love story based on the comics Le Bleu est un Couleur Chaude, from 2010, written and designed by Julie Maroh.

The plot features Adele (Adèle Exarchopoulos), a teenager who is discovering her sexuality. After a warm relationship with Thomas (Jérémie Laheurte), ends up falling in love with Emma (Lea Seydoux). The feature portrays how Adéle deals when discovering these feelings, while showing the reaction of acquaintances in relation to this novelty.

Even simple, the feature is full of controversies. To begin with, the obvious: lesbian love. It is to be imagined that in the middle of 2013 people would start to accept differences better but the criticisms attacking the French work prove that the human being still has a lot to evolve.

The always controversial sex also gives something to talk about in the film. The long sex scenes generated a stir in the critics, due to their extension and because they are extremely explicit. Highlight for the scene that shows the relationship between Adéle and Emma, which is very long and explicit, about 6 minutes long. It really is a little embarrassing for the majority of the public. However, this was a thoughtful act, since the scene that shows the sexual relationship with Thomas is much shorter and cooler, while that of women shows much more passion and helps to highlight the difference in the intensity of love.

At the press conference following the screening of the film, the director Abdellatif Kechiche was asked about the decision to do this long sex scene. His response is that he really prefers to do longer scenes, not just the sex scenes, but also love scenes, conversations, dinners and parties. In fact, this is something that is very easy to understand in the film, it was not uncommon to see scenes where the family dinner lasted a long time and long conversations. The fact of criticism of the way sex between the two characters was portrayed was also questioned, even being called a sexist view. In response, the director criticized society, saying that the focus of the scenes was their love and not sex, his focus in this film was to show gay love without any social differences.

The production is long, 3 hours long, and there really is room for the viewer to find it unnecessary to have such extensive scenes, or even the minimalist direction shown. close-ups really uncomfortable. The director defends his style, stating that these close-ups express what could not be said in words.

Blue is the hottest color It's a beautiful production. Full of details, such as the color blue always present in all scenes, the film represents love, with the bonus of showing life and youth in France, with demonstrations and school life there. In fact, he asked the actors if youth really participate like that and the answer was that yes, “everything is a reason to go out to protest and, in fact, many people end up protesting just to miss class”, said Exarchopoulos.