This is structured as a , suitable for a film publication, analysis blog, or study guide. Feature: The Bleeding Blue of Desire and Heartbreak Revisiting Blue Is The Warmest Colour , a Decade Later Logline: A young art studentâs life is transformedâand later shatteredâwhen she encounters a free-spirited older woman with blue hair, igniting an affair that defines her coming of age.
Kechiche bathes the frame in blue during moments of connection and drains it during loneliness. When AdĂšle walks out of Emmaâs exhibition at the end, the world is no longer blueâit is grey. The warmth has left. No discussion of this film is honest without addressing the centerpiece: a near-pornographic, seven-to-ten-minute (depending on the cut) lovemaking sequence. Critics called it groundbreaking; others called it exploitation. Of Blue Is The Warmest Colour-
It refuses the chaste, âsoft-focusâ lesbian trope of mainstream cinema. It is messy, loud, athleticâand crucially, boring in its length. That boredom is the point. Kechiche wants you to feel duration , the same way you feel a real sexual encounter. It is not erotic cinema; it is cinema vĂ©ritĂ© of the body. This is structured as a , suitable for