blue is a warm colour
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | blue is a warm colour |
| Original title | La vie d'Adèle |
| Country of production |
France , Belgium , Spain |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 2013 |
| length | 179 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Abdellatif Kechiche |
| script | Abdellatif Kechiche, Ghalia Lacroix |
| production | Abdellatif Kechiche |
| camera | Sofian El Fani |
| cut |
Sophie Brunet , Ghalia Lacroix, Albertine Lastera , Jean-Marie Lengelle , Camille Toubkis |
| occupation | |
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Blue is a warm color (original title: La vie d'Adèle , translated: "The life of Adèle") is a film drama by Abdellatif Kechiche from 2013. The plot is based on the French comic of the same name by Julie Maroh .
The film won the Palme d'Or at the 2013 Cannes International Film Festival . Exceptionally, the main prize was not only awarded to the director, but also to the two leading actresses Léa Seydoux and Adèle Exarchopoulos .
action
The 15-year-old student Adèle begins to discover her sexuality while she gets to know Marivaux ' La Vie de Marianne in literature class . Her friends encourage her to have sex with her older classmate, Thomas. They become a couple for a short time, but Adèle ends the relationship. Even a short liaison with an apparently lesbian classmate fails.
In the meantime, Adèle had noticed a young, apparently lesbian woman with dyed blue hair in the pedestrian zone in the city, to whom she felt attracted at first sight. The two meet again by chance in a lesbian bar, flirt with each other, and the young Emma, an art student, lets Adèle name her school. Emma actually picks up Adèle in the schoolyard, which later leads to an argument and falling out with some of Adèle's homophobic friends. A passionate love affair develops between Adèle and Emma. While Emma is open about it to her parents, Adèle hides her relationship from her father and mother. She spends Emma as a tutor for philosophy.
The two move in together later. Adèle serves Emma as a muse . At the same time, Adèle begins training as a primary school teacher. But she doesn't feel at home in Emma's cultivated circle of friends, where she only gets in touch with the actor Samir. When Emma's pictures fail to sell and she works more and more often as a graphic designer with her former partner Lise, Adèle feels lonely. She starts a brief affair with a work colleague. Emma catches her and mercilessly throws her friend out of the shared apartment. Adèle suffers a lot from the separation and tries to compensate for the inner emptiness with more work.
About three years later, the two of them meet again in a restaurant. Although Adèle and Emma still have very strong feelings for each other, Emma decides to stay with her current partner, Lise, who has brought a child into the relationship. Some time later, Adèle accepted an invitation to Emma's first vernissage . There she meets Samir again, who now works as a real estate agent. Sadly, Adèle leaves the exhibition and goes home. Samir tries to follow her but chooses the wrong path and goes in the opposite direction.
Differences to the comic
Some characters have different names; Adèle is originally called Clémentine, but Emma is not renamed. The motifs from the comic can largely be found in the film, but the plot is told more continuously in the adaptation. After the separation of Clémentine and Emma, there is a deeper reconciliation and a final act of love. Clémentine then dies in the comic, which is already anticipated on the first pages of the work in an encounter between Emma and Clémentine's parents, which also has no counterpart in the film.
Awards
- 2013 - Palme d'Or at the Cannes International Film Festival .
- 2013 - British Independent Film Award for Best Foreign Independent Film
- 2013 FIPRESCI Grand Prize
- 2013 Hamptons International Film Festival - Best Breakthrough Performer for Léa Seydoux
- Grand Marnier Fellowship Award of the New York Film Festival 2013 for Abdellatif Kechiche
- Best Foreign Language Film at the 2013 New York Film Critics Circle Awards
- 2014 : Awarded the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Foreign Language Film and for Adèle Exarchopoulos as Best Young Actress
Origin and production
The film was shot from March to August 2012 after the originally planned time of 2½ months could not be kept. A total of 750 hours were recorded and the film was cut to three hours.
Even before its premiere in Cannes on May 23, 2013, the French film workers' union ( Syndicat des professionnels de l'industrie de l'audiovisuel et du cinéma ) complained that the working conditions for the members of the film crew were unacceptable. The director was accused of unpaid overtime and harassment.
As part of the promotional tour for the film, the two leading actresses stated that they would never film with Kechiche again. They described the experience as "awful". Exarchopoulos said she closed her eyes during the sex scenes at the film premiere because her family was present. Seydoux added that she "felt like a prostitute" while filming said scenes. Furthermore, the two actresses accused Kechiche of having manipulated them and not knowing what he wanted.
In his reply, Kechiche stated that Seydoux would never have made this complaint if it had not "been wrapped in cotton from birth" (" Si Léa n'était pas née dans le coton, elle n'aurait jamais dit cela. "). With this, Kechiche alluded to Seydoux's origins as the granddaughter of the ex-president of the Pathé studio . Seydoux rowed back and stated that he was very proud of the film and just couldn't handle Kechiche's approach. Furthermore, she forbade any accusations regarding the position of her family: “My family never helped me.” (“ Je n'ai pas critiqué Abdellatif Kechiche. J'ai parlé de son approche. On ne travaillera plus ensemble. […] Ma famille ne m'a jamais aidée. »)
Exarchopoulos revised her statements to the effect that the director neither tortured nor hit her, but only demanded that she give everything. (" Faut arrêter, Abdel ne nous a ni frappées ni torturées, il nous a juste demandé de tout thunder ")
In spite of everything, Abdellatif Kechiche initially threatened to withdraw the film because it was “too dirty” (“ Mon film ne devrait pas sortir […]. Il a été trop sali ”).
In Germany, the film was released on December 19, 2013. In Austria, the regular start was one day later - the premiere was here as part of the Viennale film festival on November 3rd. The cinema release in German-speaking Switzerland was on January 9, 2014; In French-speaking Switzerland, the film was shown on October 9, 2013, in Italian-speaking Switzerland as La vita di Adele from October 24, 2013.
reception
According to his own statements, director Abdellatif Kechiche did not want to make a “lesbian love film”. He viewed his adaptation of the graphic novel Le Bleu est une couleur chaude as “a universal film about passion and the search for sexual identity”. He said of his intentions: "Far be it from me to make any militant statement on the subject of homosexuality". In his film he is "about the story of a couple in love, about the ups and downs of a deeply felt relationship that touches everyone, regardless of their sexual orientation."
Many critics praised the film for its realism and emotionality. The explicit sex scenes also caught attention. The comic book author Julie Maroh criticized these scenes and compared them to pornography . She also said the film did not accurately describe homosexuality. Homosexuals would laugh during the sex scenes because they found them unconvincing, and among the only people who didn't giggle were men who feast their eyes on the realization of their fantasies (“ […] the gay and queer people laughed because it's not convincing, and find it ridiculous, and among the only people we didn't hear giggling were guys too busy feasting their eyes on an incarnation of their fantasies on screen. ”). In the Daily Telegraph , the film was traded as a favorite for the Golden Palm right from the start and as an “ extraordinary, prolonged popping-candy explosion of pleasure, sadness, anger, lust and hope ” (German: “extraordinary, sustained loud blast of pleasure, sadness , Anger, lust and hope ”). The portrayal of the two main actresses was also praised.
The Focus praised in his review of the film, especially the direction and camera work: "And always, director Kechiche and his cameraman Sofian El Fani very close to it - at Adèle's sensual mouth, their curious and yet somehow sad eyes. The camera follows her gaze, which is scanning Emma, her face, her skin, as it strokes the body like a caress. Moments full of intimacy and desire that electrify. ”As a conclusion, the review in Focus said:“ The film offers many possibilities of interpretation and criticism. Kechiche dedicates himself to many too bold symbols, sometimes lingering too long on Adèle's mouth smeared with tomato sauce. And yet "blue is a warm color" is above all a very intensive consideration of love and how it ends in a relationship at some point - regardless of whether heterosexual or homosexual. "
ZEIT reviewer Katja Nicodemus called the film “ incredibly beautiful”.
Spielfilm.de writes in its conclusion about the film: “After the many discussions about the film and the accusations made by the leading actresses, it is hardly possible to meet it impartially. But 'blue is a warm color' doesn't deserve to be reduced to just the sex scenes. Because it is a passionate and gorgeous film about love. "
In 2016, blue is a warm color in a survey by the BBC on the 100 most important films of the 21st century .
synchronization
The film was dubbed by Christa Kistner Synchronproduktion GmbH in Potsdam . Elisabeth von Molo wrote the dialogue book and directed the dialogue.
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Emma | Léa Seydoux | Julia Kaufmann |
| Adèle | Adèle Exarchopoulos | Maximiliane Häcke |
| Samir | Salim Kechiouche | Karlo Hackenberger |
| Adèle's father | Aurélien Recoing | Wolfgang Wagner |
| Adèle's mother | Catherine Salée | Silvia Missbach |
| Antoine | Benjamin Siksou | Ozan Unal |
| Lise | Mona Walravens | Anna Grisebach |
| Beatrice | Alma Jodorowsky | Rubina Nath |
| Thomas | Jérémie Laheurte | Leonhard Mahlich |
| Emma's mother | Anne Loiret | Maud Ackermann |
| Emma's stepfather | Benoît pilot | Olaf Reichmann |
| Valentine | Sandor Funtek | Nico Sablik |
| Amélie | Fanny Maurin | Nadine Zaddam |
literature
- Julie Maroh: Blue is a warm color . Splitter Verlag, Bielefeld 2013, ISBN 978-3-86869-695-0 (French: Le bleu est une couleur chaude . Translated by Tanja Krämling, comic book template for the film).
Web links
- Blue is a warm color in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for blue is a warm color . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , November 2013 (PDF; test number: 141 906 K).
- ↑ La Vie d'Adèle. (PDF; 392 kB) Press dossier. (No longer available online.) In: Féstival de Cannes. October 9, 2013, archived from the original on September 24, 2015 ; Retrieved March 30, 2015 (French).
- ↑ Simon Staake: Blue is a warm color. In: filmszene.de. Retrieved December 16, 2014 .
- ↑ a b Blue is a warm color. In: zelluloid.de. Archived from the original on December 11, 2013 ; accessed on September 5, 2018 .
- ↑ Clarisse Fabre: Le Spiac-CGT dénonce the conditions de travail sur le tournage de “La Vie d'Adèle”. In: lemonde.fr. Le Monde , 23 May 2013, accessed 6 December 2013 (French).
- ↑ Marlow Stern: The Stars of 'Blue is the Warmest Color' On the Riveting Lesbian Love Story . In: The Daily Beast . September 1, 2013 ( thedailybeast.com [accessed November 12, 2017]).
- ↑ Kevin Jagernauth: 'Blue Is The Warmest Color': Lea Seydoux Felt Like A “Prostitute,” Director Says Sex Scenes Didn't Go Far Enough. The Playlist, October 7, 2013, accessed December 6, 2013 .
- ^ Marie Turcan: Kechiche: "Léa Seydoux est née dans le coton". Le Figaro.fr, September 5, 2013, accessed December 6, 2013 (French).
- ↑ La Vie d'Adèle: Le cinéaste Abdellatif Kechiche clashe violemment Léa Seydoux. purepeople.com, September 5, 2013, accessed December 7, 2013 (French).
- ↑ SL: Adèle Exarchopoulos: “Abdellatif Kechiche ne nous a ni frappées ni torturées!” public.fr, September 26, 2013, accessed December 7, 2013 (French).
- ↑ Zineb Dryef: Abdellatif Kechiche, écœuré: "Mon movie ne devrait pas sortir". ru89.com, September 25, 2013, accessed December 7, 2013 (French).
- ↑ Film info too. Blue is a warm colour. skip.at, accessed on December 8, 2013 .
- ↑ La Vie d'Adèle - Chapitres 1 et 2. Blue is a warm color. Viennale, accessed December 8, 2013 .
- ↑ Information on La Vie d'Adèle. In: OutNow.ch. Retrieved December 8, 2013 .
- ↑ La vie d'Adèle. Synopsis. In: movies.ch, accessed on May 3, 2014.
- ↑ Blue is a warm color. In: The first . December 9, 2013, archived from the original on December 17, 2013 ; Retrieved December 16, 2013 .
- ↑ Michelle Juergen: Why 'Blue Is The Warmest Color' Fails At Showing Lesbian Love. In: policymic.com. November 6, 2013, archived from the original on December 7, 2013 ; accessed on December 7, 2013 .
- ^ Robbie Collin: Cannes 2013: Blue is the Warmest Color, review. (No longer available online.) In: Telegraph.co.uk. May 24, 2013, formerly in the original ; accessed on December 7, 2013 (English, no mementos). ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )
- ↑ Cannes winner: “Blue is a warm color”. In: Focus. December 15, 2013.
- ↑ Katja Nicodemus: Time for Love. In: The time. December 12, 2013, accessed May 16, 2018.
- ↑ Review of the film "Blue is a warm color". In: spielfilm.de, accessed on May 16, 2018.
- ↑ German synchronous index: German synchronous index | Movies | Blue is a warm colour. In: synchronkartei.de. Retrieved March 4, 2018 .