WATCH PARTY: Blue Is the Warmest Color (2013) Abdellatif Kechiche @ Pretlow Lib
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We will be in the big room, Meeting Room 1, for an epic movie. Never seen this one, but know it's supposed to be zesty by reputation. Based on a graphic novel by Jul Maroh.
RUNTIME: 180 minutes
SYNOPSIS (from Criterion.com): The colorful, electrifying romance that took the Cannes Film Festival by storm courageously dives into a young woman’s experiences of first love and sexual awakening. Blue Is the Warmest Color stars the remarkable newcomer Adèle Exarchopoulos as a high schooler who, much to her own surprise, plunges into a thrilling relationship with a female twentysomething art student, played by Léa Seydoux. Directed by Abdellatif Kechiche, this finely detailed, intimate epic sensitively renders the erotic abandon of youth. It has captivated international audiences and been widely embraced as a defining love story for the new century.
BLURBS:
"It's a spellbinding piece of acting. Exarchopoulos is not so much an open book as an uncorrected proof, every idle desire and surging daydream splashed across her face, waiting to be edited and inhibited by experience." - Ryan Gilbey, New Statesman
"From the moment when Adèle first catches sight of Emma, on a busy crosswalk, the movie restores your faith in the power of the coup de foudre and yet redoubles your fear of its effect; love, like lightning, can both illuminate and scorch." - Anthony Lane, The New Yorker
"This is absolute cinema, absolute characterization, absolute storytelling, controlled and compassionate, and bursting with empathy and life...this is really the kind of film we come to Cannes in hopes of discovering." - Jessica Kiang, The Playlist