The majority of the news coverage surrounding Cannes standout, Blue is the Warmest Color has been the negative press being thrown back and forth, largely between director Abdellatif Kechiche and star Léa Seydoux. I’ve chosen to leave that alone so as not to sully the experience as it truly is a film worth seeing, though perhaps not the cinematic masterpiece some have decided to declare it.
Today a new clip (via The Playlist) from the film has arrived featuring Seydoux as Emma and breakout star Adèle Exarchopoulos as Adele, a young girl who finds herself falling for a slightly older woman as she explores her sexuality and finds happiness in an unlikely partner. The film follows her journey well beyond her high school years, but featured here is an early scene in the film as the two share their first kiss.
Blue is the Warmest Color hits theaters on October 25.
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Here’s a snippet from right here:
Where Blue is the Warmest Color largely succeeds is in treating Adele’s journey not as a lesbian, but as just another person, looking for love and a happy life. Certainly her sexuality comes with a social price, a level of confusion and even moments where ignorance finds her the victim of hate. Adele’s inability to admit to everyone she knows her true sexuality also opens up additional realities. The knee-jerk reaction is to define her as a lesbian but the film is quick to prove that would merely be a label and in this case possibly a wrong one. The film finds moral grounds in asking if it’s natural human instinct to love, can it really be wrong to find love and passion with anyone or anything? How can you condemn something you haven’t tried simply on the basis of looks, texture or a lack of understanding?
