Monday 10 February 2014

023. La Vie d'Adèle / Blue is the Warmest Colour (France - 2013)


Adèle is a girl like any other, but who has always been in some bothersome conflicts concerning her love life. As the film goes, she finds people in whom she'd be interested, but her doubts about her sexuality start tormenting her. That's before she meets Emma, a plastic artist whose blue hair possesses the main mise-en-scene element in the whole film. Not in vain, since Kechiche chooses well when to use the colour blue and what transitions it can trigger in the mood of the story. The strong scenes of love and sex between Adèle and Emma are probably the forte of the film, atmosphere-wise. Both "protagonists'" performances are great, and the drama generated by their conflicts (also caused by the ever tormenting doubt Adèle has towards her sexuality) divides the film in two major sections: the peaceful and caring living between the two of them (still when Emma has her charming blue hair) and the quarrelsome dilemmas in Adèle's life, especially when seeing her sweetheart already re-married and well-off with her art (and whose hair no longer responds to the English-language title of the film).

And the ending is superbly unconventional.

Director:  Abdellatif Kechiche.

Score
Cinematography: 8.5
Acting: 9.0
Editing: 8.5
Sound: 8.0
Text: 8.0
Concept: 7.5
Premise execution: 8.5

Average Score: 8.2

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