The Life of Adèle

Abdellatif Kechiche
Adèle Exarchopoulos, Léa Seydoux, Salim Kechiouche, Jérémie Laheurte, Catherine Salée, Aurélien Recoing, Mona Walravens, Alma Jodorowsky, Anna Le Nail, Benjamin Siksou, Sandor Funtek
2013
France, Belgium, Spain
Completed
French, English
179 minutes
Detailed introduction
This film (drama)Also known asLa Vie d'Adèle,is aFrance, Belgium, SpainProducerwomen sex,At2013Released in year
。The dialogue language isFrench, English,Current Douban rating8.4(For reference only)。
The story revolves around a 15-year-old girl named Adèle (played by Adèle Exarchopoulos), who has a handsome classmate boyfriend named Thomas (played by Jérémie Laheurte), but Thomas hasn't been able to win her heart. After an unexpected encounter with a beautiful blue-haired girl named Emma (played by Léa Seydoux), Adèle experiences her first fluttering feelings of infatuation. One night, as Adèle nervously walks into a gay bar, she discovers that Emma is there waiting for her. As the girls grow closer, Adèle's adolescence becomes increasingly complex... The film "The Life of Adèle" is adapted from French female writer Julie Maroh's graphic novel "Blue Is the Warmest Color" (which is the English title), depicting a passionate same-sex love story involving the girl Adèle. The three-hour runtime is long but engaging, filled with various elements of intimacy, and astonishingly bold in its depiction of sexual content. The film's most valuable aspect is that it doesn't exploit homosexuality as a hot topic; instead, it uses the love between the same sex as a vehicle to express the most beautiful yet melancholic feelings of first love. The protagonist’s journey from discovering her sexual orientation to gradually finding true love and then losing her partner resembles a beautiful blooming and eventual wilting of flowers, captivating the audience. Director Abdellatif Kechiche, born in Tunisia, has been nominated for the Venice Golden Lion three times, with "The Secret of the Grain" winning the Jury Prize. He is passionate about portraying the lives of French youths of foreign descent and their quest for identity, remaining a consistently high-caliber creative director. 2013 marked his first nomination at Cannes. "The Life of Adèle" won the Palm d'Or and the FIPRESCI Prize at the 66th Cannes Film Festival.