Lynn Belvedere

BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR

Lea Seydoux and Adele Exarchopoulos in the Palm d'Or award winning, BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOUR
Lea Seydoux and Adele Exarchopoulos in the Palm d’Or award winning, BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOUR

Having attended the Cannes Film Festival in May 2013 (15th to 26th May),  I actually got to experience the superb Palm d’Or winner, BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR.

Originally a graphic novel written by Julie Maroh, BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR was adapted for the screen by Ghalia Lacroix and director Abdellatif Kechiche, and stars  Léa Seydoux, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Salim Kechiouche, Aurélien Recoing.

This movie is a minutely detailed and searingly erotic three-hour study of first lesbian love. Adèle (Adèle Exarchopoulos) is a sensitive fifteen-year-old student as yet unaware of her sexual desires for her own gender. A blue-haired stranger arrives in her life, the confident and assertive Emma (Léa Seydoux), who will allow her to fully discover desire.  Adèle soon finds herself wrapped in the arms of her new lover.

Kechiche has fashioned an intimate epic containing every subtle emotional turn rendered each time on Exarchopoulos’s exquisitely expressive face. We experience all of Adèle’s awakening, blossoming from teenager to young woman, showing tingly depth with huge behind-closed-door tenderness. This is an epic of emotional transformation that pulses with gestures, embraces, furtive exchanges and many arias of both joy and devastation.

The movie is sexually implicit in nature and has garnered an R18+ classification from the Australian Film Censorship Board (OFLC), with the Board apparently cutting six minutes of screen time, to make it ready for release.   The Australian Film Censorship Board (OFLC) policy has always been, to never advertise what specific footage has been eliminated from a movie.

BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR, in French with English subtitles, and with a cinema running time of 173 minutes, opens in cinemas on Thursday 13th February. Highly recommended, this is definitely a film to see on the big screen.

http://www.transmissionfilms.com.au/index.php/blueisthewarmestcolour/

OFLC Classification: rated R18+ (High impact sex scenes),  173 minutes. http://www.classification.gov.au/Pages/View.aspx?sid=mapm7kPB72VXr%2F6EzVRKzA%3D%3D

DENDY CINEMAS WEBSITE

http://www.dendy.com.au/Movie/Blue-Is-The-Warmest-Color

PALACE CINEMAS WEBSITE

http://www.palacecinemas.com.au/movies/blueisthewarmestcolor/

UPDATED – Of course all Australian Cinemas are showing the OFLC running time for BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR as 173 minutes. However the journalists at The Sydney Morning Herald, are incorrectly showing  179 minutes as the Australian Cinemas running time for BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR.  Most of the world is allowed to watch the complete un-cut version at 179 minutes, as shown at the Cannes Film Festival.

http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/a-saturating-love-20140206-3258j.html

http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/inspired-tale-of-a-deep-love-affair-20140213-32n44.html

 

Published by Lynn Belvedere

Once we were old enough, my parents took the whole family to the Sydney CBD cinemas every week. Thus began a lifetime interest, in going to the cinema every week, and became a passionate cinephile by watching all those very heavily edited ''Australian Film Censorship Board'' true cinéaste versions of brand new release ''Cinematograph Films''. Greater Union always gave my father (who worked in Cinema Distribution Exhibition) guest double movie passes, to every first-night ''red carpet Opening Night'' at The State Theatre Cinema at 49 Market Street. Up until his death, my dad always received ''two house seats'' for every Opening Night performance events at the Theatre Royal SYDNEY and at Her Majesty's Theatre SYDNEY. As a child, when mum choose not to go, I often went with him, to those live performance events. As a young child, I remember being taken for each new show, at both The New Theatre at 60 Sussex Street, and the Phillip Street Theatre when located at 150 Elizabeth Street, and for classical music concerts at Sydney Town Hall. = = = ★★★★★ = = = Being happy is a choice, and I have always viewed my life, as material ready be made into a series of amazing tentpole movies. My New Years Resolution is kept every year: ''Get to see/review five new live theatre shows each week, and get to see/review six new cinema movies each week'', plus is one of the Australian Cinema Pioneers, and apparently have seen far too much already, but always wanting to experience more and more each year. I am also able to do almost everything that I enjoy doing. Yes, I do have a great daytime job in I.T. as ''Software Design Project Manager'', PLUS each evening until quite late - - - Australian Cinematograph Films historical censorship consultant - product-placement consultant - mystery-shopper consultant - playwright, writer, author, director, producer, photographer, cinematographer, color-grader, subtitles proofreader - arts/ drama/ music/ film critic and judge, journalist, member FIPRESCI & FCCA & AFCA, member AACTA accredited film reviewer-critic-writer, accredited IMDB.COM critic-reviewer-author, projectionist, plus an innovative iconoclast - - - ★★★★★ LYNN BELVEDERE ★★★★★ - - - [usr 5] - - -