Film Blue Is The Warmest Color

[JoeTheStoner]

all that i'd hope it would be and more. magical, heart achingly beautiful. see it A$AP!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2278871/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Is_the_Warmest_Colour

I hold it true, whate'er befall;
I feel it when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.

 

[JoeTheStoner]

resisting urge to not post until its widely available. BUT...

i came across this clip from last month on youtube with some directors commentary on a scene. i was just surprised (pleasantly) to find out the other girl was "Alma Jodorowsky" yes, that "Jodorowsky"

 

[hydroazuanacaine]

i was kinda expecting to be disappointed. that's how it often works. i wasn't! it's so nice!

lèa isn't the star i was crushing on. though once she cuts the blue hair, she's looking really good. adèle exarchopoulos is such a fucking cutie. she's fit, yet she's still got this baby look. in fashion editorials, yeah, i wanna see bone. but what's attractive in the "i wanna touch" sense, this girl has. aspects of her jawline might be slightly masculine; those baby cheeks make it more than work.

this abdellatif is just not gonna let her be the audience's little girl. my goto for analysis, find the noise that grates and relate to the gold standard of fiction -- nabokov's Lolita. why the graphic, gritty sex scenes disrupting an otherwise soft, beautiful, unreal film? to prevent the audience from shaping adèle into a bisexual phoebe pyncheon. h.h. carved a girl into his impossible fantasy; abdellatif is stopping the audience from doing the same. after watching her fuck like a porn star, she's a not quite as ethereal. i plan to flesh out this idea into an essay. i gotta look into this antigone mythology the film alludes to in discussing the concept of "little." in addition to preventing the film from being lesbian/gay genre fiction -- which it edges on at moments -- i think her bisexuality also intentionally detracts from this unreal or ethereal quality. won't let it be pristine.

oh, i cried for a second! [spoil]obviously they were not going to end together -- we are told tragedy is inevitable -- but when emme tells adèle she doesn't love her.[/spoil] got me. her follow-up, "a feeling of infinite tenderness" in contrast to love is very interesting. i'm not giving 5 stars until i see again, but tears put a movie in the running.

Chapitres 1 et 2?

 

[Bluesbreaker]

Part 1 and 2. The comic book the film is adapted upon contains multiple chapters. I'm not sure there are more than 2 parts though, I didn't read the books.

 

[JoeTheStoner]

unfamiliar with the graphic novel, it was nice to see abdellatif include those scenes at the gay pride parade and also at dinner how adèle and her parents discussing career choices, think it was when lèa came over mentioning about being an artist... just made it all feel very "in the now"

i was kinda expecting to be disappointed. that's how it often works. i wasn't! it's so nice!

phew, that's good to hear. i feel you on the "that's how it often works". years ago use to always get hyped up from teasers, trailers, still, interviews, etc and i think more often than not it led me to being let down. i don't do that as much anymore BUT i did for BITWC and loved every second.

you've opened my eyes in regards to the explicit sex scenes "abdellatif is just not gonna let her be the audience's little girl" never thought about it in that way. this might sound like sacrilege but i've never seen Lolita nor read the novel. be interested to hear what ya write when ya flesh out the idea =) will make a point of it to watch Lolita before.

the words "a feeling infinite tenderness" let me breathe a sigh of relief for adèle.

allow me to indulge. SFW. funny part of interview they gave, but may be spoiler-ish

NSFW:

 

[hydroazuanacaine]

do they have a thing for each other, or are the just that committed to their work?


the lolita movies are not the same as the novel. i've seen them, but i don't know what the movies are. i refer to nabokov's Lolita, the novel. which you definitely should read. one of the best things in existence. you should approach as a project. reading Lolita, then reading Despair, and then reading the annotated Lolita -- knowing that nabokov denounced some of the annotations -- is the way go about it. which is no easy undertaking.

edit:
i'd love you so much if you did. i love talking about Lolita.

 

[Carl Landrover]

Is Despair by Nabokov as well?

I had to read Lolita for an English class and was so glad we read it. Never saw the movies, but the book is excellent.


Came to this thread to see if Blue is the Warmest Color was worth sitting for the 3 hour play time. Seems like it is.

 

[JoeTheStoner]

^ yea definitely worth it. i was watching a press conference on it and the director talks about the length.

longest film i watched was "love exposure" (4 hours) i tells ya, i can recall 80 minute films i couldn't wait to be over and 240 minute ones i never wanted to end lol.

do they have a thing for each other, or are the just that committed to their work?

you should approach as a project. reading Lolita, then reading Despair, and then reading the annotated Lolita -- knowing that nabokov denounced some of the annotations -- is the way go about it. which is no easy undertaking.

lol, i think they just became really good friends after the film, i have no idea really tho tbh.

books added to "my list" i'll look into giving it a go after i finish "american gods" have been a bit busy but it will get done, promise =)

 

[hydroazuanacaine]

have a whole bunch i wanna say in response to the latest comments, but i'm at work, so later today. just wanted to pop in because pandora radio is my work buddy and i had a mini-epiphany 30 seconds ago; Lykke Li feels even warmer than before because that's who adèle dances to. during one of the film's many overwhelmingly beautiful scenes.

edit:
i guess this is lunch. yes, Despair is also by nabokov. it uses many of the same rhetorical devices -- primarily manipulation through (a sociopath's) first-person narrative -- but it is much, much clearer in its use. the story is no where near as great, the read not as rewarding, but it's still a far above average novel and is a great base from which to further develop an understanding of aspects of Lolita.

we have a Lolita thread in Words? if not, that might be worth changing. though i've probably already tried to start one. people talk about it a bit in the general discussion thread. anyway, i'd be extremely interested to hear more about your impressions, Carl. and of course, Joe, once you get to it.

i gotta watch the press conference, but i'm not sure i'm ready to hear one of the creators comment on the piece yet. i've only seen it once.

 

[JoeTheStoner]

i watched that dance scene to the lykke li song so many times.

the more i hear about Despair, the more i wanna sink my teeth into it =)