blue is the warmest color - Abdellatif Kechiche

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I liked this alright, but the breakup fight is both the worst and most predictable scene in it.

classroom scenes are v much akin to his L'esquive (a better movie)

nostormo yr analysis rocks

i think Kechiche made a mistake when choosing to somewhat abandon the political part in the 2nd part of the movie.

otm. there was enough space (p.sure the film is about 10 hrs long) to explore more fully the ideas abt class etc than the nods we get

instead, prosthetic fannies

Thoughts on this: I don't think Adele was ever political. The demo at the beginning is just a youth-thing, every highschool student in europe goes to those things. Adele and her friends act political instead of being political, it's meant to mirror the Gay Pride parade. Actually, most of the film is built of scenes mirroring one another. My reading of the ending is that it mirrors the scene at the lesbian bar. There, Emma turned up by coincidence. In the end, Samir turns the wrong way, again by coincidence. It shows just how much Adele has built her life on what seemed like destiny, but was pretty much coincidences.

Best moment in the film: When Adele acts like a rabbit in front of her kids. She has quite prominent teeth...

Rewatching The Secret of the Grain last week, I noticed an ass-slapping scene.

thinking about this in the last few days (perhaps that LWL review quote was wrong after all) and i now wish that it didnt have any sex in it at all (though it would then risk appearing coy and frightened of lesbian sex so maybe im just being prudish or worried about saying i find an actress almost 20 years my junior quite attractive) as it really just makes the film look a little disengenuous in its intentions. OTOH, without them, im not sure this film would really be half as notable as it is. without them, it would just be the latest in a somewhat familiar category in european cinema. still, kudos to kechiche (and francois ozon for jeune et jolie) for bringing back the great tradition of films about teenage girl sexuality made by middle aged men!

for about half the screening i saw the subtitles started showing up like this:

□□□□ This is a line of dialogue □□□

― |$̲̅(̲̅ιοο̲̅)̲̅$̲̅| (gr8080), Tuesday, December 3, 2013 11:27 AM (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

4 squares in front, three behind, for like 30mins at a time

― |$̲̅(̲̅ιοο̲̅)̲̅$̲̅| (gr8080), Tuesday, December 3, 2013 11:28 AM (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

omg yes what was this about

Emojis that didn't make it through the subtitle software.

As someone who has seen the first Hobbit movie, Josh in Chicago, perhaps three hours of your life isn't as precious as you think.

I'm trying to pin down whether this film is great or whether it is simply a great version of a film we've all seen before.

also, you only need to see about one film every 40 years if you take the more stringent option.

I'm waiting for this one to be released in 3D at a high frame rate.

Boy there would be some uncomfortable scenes if that were to happen...

would def watch those spaghetti scenes in 3D

I worried about the symbolism of the spaghetti until it showed up at the gf's art party.

Listened to a podcast where two SWM critics worried that the spanking made the sex seem like p0rn.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-El-KfL-Gi-E/UM05RZj91vI/AAAAAAAAaPc/PigCMSDqhBg/s1600/Lady+and+Tramp+spaghetti.jpg

My parents are coming over for dinner tomorrow night. Spaghetti.

Spaghetti is my family's "2nd Christmas" dinner this year.

I mean, jeez, who gets off without spanking, on a vanilla night?

"A worm crawls out of the spaghetti and says 'that was some gang bang!'"

not funny. also wrong: orgy.

"A worm crawls out of a plate of spaghetti and says 'that was some gang bang!'"
"How sweet!"
"'Sweet' may not be the word"

My attention didn’t flag, and at three hours, that’s a compliment right there. Lead performances mostly excellent--no idea if Adèle Exarchopoulos has any chance at an Academy Award, but I don’t think I saw anyone else who was better this year. (The make-up department maybe overdid her disheveledness now and again; thought of that line from Touch of Evil a couple of times, “You’re a mess, honey.”) More explicit than I expected. The first half especially had a sure hand. One excellent moment I wish the director hadn’t cut short: the kindergarten kids start nap time, and there’s a shot of Adèle in repose as their beautiful nap-time music plays. (They still have nap time in France? We had it in 1966, but it’s long gone over here.)

Same reservations as expressed by others above: some of it (the break-up scene the worst offender) is very conventional. Not sure that I read the ending correctly, but if so, I’d be interested in hearing anyone who thought the ending of Nebraska was obvious explain how the ending here isn’t doubly so. (Which can't be done without spelling it out, so never mind.)

i dont know if i drifted off but i was a bit confused as to when adele left school to become a teacher full time.

Me too! And I didn't drift once. She was talking about her dream of becoming a teacher in one scene, then she woke up the next day and she was a teacher.

It wasn't the obviousness of the ending to Nebraska that was the problem but that it felt tacked on? Not too much that happened previously pointed to it. Whereas here she was going to move on towards some kind of unknown future at some point?

I had the same interpretation of the ending as nostormo above (it's been out long enough that I probably don't need to be so careful), which would be fairly conventional, if not obvious. It was actually Morbius who called Nebraska's ending obvious the other day; I found the ending very satisfying and logical. I was fine with Blue's ending, just didn't think it was any more subtle or meaningful than Nebraska's.

Steaming on Netflix...

Pun intended?

i watched 2/3 of this today. not so interested in seeing the last 1/3 when the relationship goes south, but i loved what i saw. the close ups were great. the main things i liked were all the closeups and the fact that adele was sort of a gross slob, especially when she was eating ham at the picnic.

i got a kick out of adele in general, just her lazy vibe and hilarious facial expressions.

Aw you ruined my poem! Not cool

watched this for the first time since the theaters 5 years ago. it's the movie Burt Reynolds wants to make at the end of Boogie Nights: a compelling dramatic narrative pornography. the performances are great, but the characters are so one-dimensional, speaking boilerplate, going thru the most common relationship arc there is, punctuated by some wild sex scenes. this is a powerfully erotic movie, not powerful & erotic (like Carol). I find it amusing that it's subtitled at the end "Part 1 of 2: Life of Adele" or something, I'd like to see it but that's never going to happen... didn't everyone that worked on this movie say that Kechiche was a piece of shit?

read something about that. glad the two actresses shared the Palme with the director, the performances were amazing

Anyone see his latest? Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno. I'm guessing there's not going to be a 'Canto Due' of that either. It's a pretty good tic, though.

Thought the revive was going to be about this story:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/oct/31/blue-is-the-warmest-colour-director-abdellatif-kechiche

:( Though honestly this is one of the least surprising ones.

yeah, and now I'm remembering by the time this movie came out in the US it was already surrounded by a miasma of misconduct

The trailer for the new Abdellatif Kechiche film looks intriguing pic.twitter.com/SzrRvz4wJZ

— Eric Allen Hatch (@ericallenhatch) June 15, 2019

This was on Film4 last night and I managed about two hours before getting bored of the camera gawping at Adele's mopey face and not so mopey arse. Which is a shame because I really liked the early part of the film and Adele Exarchopoulos' performance is amazing. The sex scenes are ludicrous but I imagine the director enjoyed them.

The whole film is a never-ending Lenny face.

Butts is the warmest color

Isn't this the chump whose much derided latest features long stretches of nothing but twerking and oral sex?

careers have been built on less

I believe his latest film is a breakthrough in the onscreen depiction of twerking, yes.

The whole film is a never-ending Lenny face.

is there a single female post itt

Probably not, how many women post on ILX still? 5?

(xp) That's exactly what I was thinking reading the inexplicably positive responses to this film itt. I do wonder if anyone's changed their mind since though.