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Blue is the Warmest Colour

Started by Talulah, really!, November 26, 2013, 09:58:17 PM

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Talulah, really!

3 hours of French lezzies, what's not to like?

Seriously though, this is a sensational film, a real epic of intimacy and the ordinary, a sensuous, passionate telling of a young girl's growth into womanhood, discovering the trials of love and loss in everyday settings. (The opening shot of her running down her street shows the kind of town that could exist almost anywhere in the first world), the first part of the film mostly takes place in the type of mixed school most of us would have attended. It is here that Adele, the central characters takes her first faltering steps away from her shy harbour and towards the seas of relationships, guided by her friends into a hesitant hooking up with a senior boy.

There are two techniques that give the film a spellbinding depth and reality. First, for most of the film, the camera will focus tight on Adele's face, her face filling the frame, allowing the audience to watch almost each and every thought, each and every response to her surrounding in hallucinatory detail, watching her feelings spill out the screen.

Second, scenes are given their natural duration, not rushed and punctuated by the dramatic necessity of plot, instead they ebb and flow just as in life and then the film will cut and jump abruptly to the next scene and allow the audience to find it's own holds in the story. This is a film that really understands the meaning of "show not tell", we watch, we observe and our judgements are our own, the film does not impose it's own judgements on the characters, beyond that they have a story worth telling.

It is a film about growing up, about class, politics, art but most of all it is about love.