She’s amazing in the film and I would have sworn that she truly aged 10 years as the film progresses. Adèle Exarchopoulos is a very rare kind of actress that you don’t come across very often! I agree that the film would not have worked at all if the two actresses didn’t work together but I had a very strong feeling when I met her that Adèle was right for the part. Did you have any worries about their chemistry since that’s so important for this type of film?Ībdellatif Kechiche: Well, I had already cast Léa Seydoux for the part of Emma and I happened to meet Adèle much later. The film is a remarkable achievement, and goes far beyond its much-discussed explicit lesbian sex scenes.ĭanny Miller: I heard you say that you cast your two actresses independent of each other.
Kechiche’s film is over three hours long, but unlike some movies half that length that feel like torture to sit through, I was riveted throughout and never once looked at my watch. When she later meets that woman - a confident older art student named Emma (Seydoux) - they begin an intense and complicated love story that spans a decade and takes both characters in directions they never could have imagined. She has a brief affair with a male classmate but a fantasy she has about a mysterious blue-haired woman she sees on the street puts an end to that relationship. Adèle longs to experience her first big love. When I caught up with the Tunisian-French director/screenwriter just after he completed a press conference with the two actresses for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, tension seemed to be in the air.īlue Is the Warmest Color centers on a girl named Adèle (Exarchopoulos) who, when the film begins, is 15 and still in high school. I don’t know what their experience was like making this film, but as a moviegoer, I can only marvel at the film’s depth and poetry - and what I consider to be two of the best performances of the year.
Watch blue is the warmest color cast movie#
Are the extended lesbian sex scenes too much for general audiences? Were the film’s stars, Léa Seydoux and Adèle Exarchopoulos, treated badly by Kechiche during the shoot? Does Julie Maroh, the writer of the graphic novel on which the film is based, feel that the movie misses the mark? Despite winning the top prize at one of the most prestigious film festivals in the world, rumors of discontent between the director and his two leads have swirled since some out-of-context comments of theirs spread all over the Internet. Despite the adage “There is no such thing as bad publicity,” I’ve been a little bummed watching the controversies that continue to dog Abdellatif Kechiche’s exquisite Blue Is the Warmest Color ever since the film won the Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.