![]() ![]() The premise of Blue Is the Warmest Colour is based on the 2010 French graphic novel of the same name by Julie Maroh, which was published in North America in 2013. The film charts their relationship from Adele's high school years to her early adult life and career as a school teacher. The film revolves around Adèle (Exarchopoulos), a French teenager who discovers desire and freedom when a blue-haired aspiring painter (Seydoux) enters her life. She also was named Best Actress by the Los Angeles Film Critics (in a tie with Cate Blanchett) and has sparked Oscar buzz, thus Sundance Selects’ new trailer.Photo src: Blue Is the Warmest Colour (French: La Vie d'Adèle - Chapitres 1 & 2 French pronunciation: ) is a 2013 French coming-of-age romantic drama film co-written, co-produced, and directed by Abdellatif Kechiche, and starring Léa Seydoux and Adèle Exarchopoulos. I think all the geniuses have this kind of complexity, and they can be like an angel or a devil sometimes.”Īfter winning the Palme d’Or, Exarchopoulos has been chalking up a number of Breakthrough Actress Of The Year awards from various critics groups. I don’t know about Coppola but I heard about making Apocalypse Now. And yeah with every genius comes their own complexities. He takes many, many takes and he wants you to abandon yourself and sometimes it’s so hard to follow him. He’s taking risks like no one, but he’s passionate and he sacrifices everything for cinema. “He makes cinema like no one else makes cinema. “I mean I got the chance of a lifetime - he’s a genius,” she said. ![]() Despite that, Exarchopoulos says the role was to good to pass up. Like up to 100 for a scene and he can spend up to a week, seven days on a single scene,” she says of the director’s hard-driving style that has been the stuff of controversy in interviews his stars have given in recent months. For one of them - where she has to eat kabobs, heavy with sauce - Kechiche required numerous takes so Exarchopoulos says she would have to vomit and try again. You’re just yourself and you have to make body language.”Īctually she says the food scenes were much more difficult than the sex scenes. I mean you’re vulnerable, there is no chickening out. She’s more experienced than me so I was feeling from her because she’s really good, and I was lucky to play with her. There is no hypocrisy and she doesn’t try to force things and try to be friends because of the shoot. “We said hello and two minutes after we’re naked and we’re like, ‘OK, let’s do this’. “The first thing we did together is the sex scene, the dream scene, so when you meet someone naked it’s so different,” Exarchopoulos said. In fact she said although she knew her co-star by reputation (Seydoux is a huge star in France) she didn’t meet her until she was on the set for the first nude scene. Related: Sundance Selects To Release ‘Blue Is The Warmest Color’ With NC-17 RatingĮxarchopoulos also has a refreshing, unfiltered attitude toward acting - and in this case, those talked-about nude scenes. I mean you never realize what it’s like to win such a prize at 19. “We thought our reaction would be more divided, like some people hate and some people love it - but almost everyone liked it. “It was my first Cannes Film Festival”, she told me. For Exarchopoulos, who recently turned 20, it was, and continues to be, a pretty heady experience as she explained when I recently interviewed her for the Screen Actors Guild Foundation. But as Spielberg explained, the Cannes jury saw it only as simply a great love story. A three-hour study of the intense romance between a teenage girl and an older lesbian, the NC-17 film has caused waves wherever it’s played. ![]()
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