IMDb plot summary: Adèle's life is changed when she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire and to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. In front of others, Adèle grows, seeks herself, loses herself, and ultimately finds herself through love and loss.
Directed by Abdellatif Kechiche. Starring Léa Seydoux, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Salim Kechiouche, and Aurélien Recoing.
This film REALLY likes to zoom in on its characters' bodies -- uncomfortably close. I feel like fully half of the movie is seeing snot and saliva and other bodily fluids so close up it's like I'm touching them, and it's an aesthetic that I find deeply off-putting. And it's just deeply uncomfortable to see so many extended sex scenes in the early parts of the movie where Adele is still underage. On top of that, I don't find the story all that engaging. Adele herself, yes, but her relationship with Emma is told in exceptionally slow little anecdotes with huge gaps in between that don't ever really come together to create a fully fleshed-out story for me.
How it entered my Flickchart:
Blue Is the Warmest Color < The Chalk Garden
Blue Is the Warmest Color > The Birthday Party
Blue Is the Warmest Color < Sarah, Plain and Tall
Blue Is the Warmest Color > After the Thin Man
Blue Is the Warmest Color > Hide and Seek
Blue Is the Warmest Color < Genius
Blue Is the Warmest Color > Cinderella (2015)
Blue Is the Warmest Color < Less Than Zero
Blue Is the Warmest Color < Miller's Crossing
Blue Is the Warmest Color < Cellular
Blue Is the Warmest Color < Little Women (1933)
Blue Is the Warmest Color < Carol
Final spot: #2128 out of 3283, or 35%.
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