{"id":15575,"date":"2013-10-17T20:34:34","date_gmt":"2013-10-17T19:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=15575"},"modified":"2014-08-27T15:54:05","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T14:54:05","slug":"lff-2013-blue-is-the-warmest-colour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2013\/10\/17\/lff-2013-blue-is-the-warmest-colour\/","title":{"rendered":"LFF 2013: Blue is the Warmest Colour"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Adele<\/a><\/p>\n

The winner of this year’s Palme D’Or is a frank but absorbing study of a young girl’s sexual awakening.<\/p>\n

Running close to three hours of screen time this is an epic of the heart and disarmingly in-depth depiction of falling in love.<\/p>\n

When we first meet the protagonist, Adele (Adele Exarchopoulos) she is a 15-year old girl about to begin her first serious relationship with a classmate Thomas (Jeremie Laheurte).<\/p>\n

However, a chance encounter with an older blue-haired woman named Emma (Lea Seydoux), leads her to question her emotions and feelings towards her own sex.<\/p>\n

But this is just the beginning of the long journey which director Abdellatif Kechiche takes us on, as emotionally charged highs are gradually mixed in with heartbreaking lows.<\/p>\n

Despite taking place over a number of years – I would roughly estimate around six – Kechiche cleverly uses the narrative, so key episodes gradually fade into another.<\/p>\n

These segments could almost be short films in themselves: an early encounter at a lesbian bar; a tender scene in the park; and two awkward dinner parties are just some of the memorable scenes as Emma and Adele fall in love.<\/p>\n