You might hear the title, Driving Madeleine (French title: Une Belle Course), and then read the logline about a driver taxiing a 92-year old woman around Paris and instantly think “Aha! It is a French Driving Miss Daisy!” Well, having absolutely nothing to do with that 1989 Best Picture Oscar winner that so memorably starred Jessica Tandy and Morgan Freeman, the two films do have something in common. They are both irresistibly cast with exceptional veteran stars who each grab the heart and never let go.
A selection of the 2022 Toronto Film Festival, this quintessential French film may surprise you with its sheer grit. Yes, it is a road trip where the gorgeously shot City of Lights is undeniably the third major star in it, but the story, from a screenplay by Cyril Gely and adaptation by director Christian Carion, goes places I never expected.
The set-up is simple. Charles (Dany Boon...
A selection of the 2022 Toronto Film Festival, this quintessential French film may surprise you with its sheer grit. Yes, it is a road trip where the gorgeously shot City of Lights is undeniably the third major star in it, but the story, from a screenplay by Cyril Gely and adaptation by director Christian Carion, goes places I never expected.
The set-up is simple. Charles (Dany Boon...
- 1/12/2024
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
Line Renaud and Dany Boon give low-key, sincere performances as they reunite for an eventful cab ride through Paris
A fourth collaboration between French funnyman Dany Boon and one-time music-hall sensation Line Renaud (who played his mother in 2008 Euro-hit Bienvenue Chez Les Ch’tis), this two-hander has a strong conceit: Madeleine (Renaud) relives her life in the backseat of the cab driving her through Paris to a nursing home, with troubled chauffeur Charles (Boon) as her confessor. The film’s gaze is fixed in the rear-view mirror far more than the Before Sunset-style dalliance it occasionally resembles, but it’s not straightforwardly nostalgic.
Madeleine’s tale starts off rose-tinted: played in flashback by Alice Isaaz, she has a wartime romance with an American soldier, which produces a son. But after her Yank beau heads back over the Atlantic, she takes up with wrong ’un Ray (Jérémie Laheurte), who resents the...
A fourth collaboration between French funnyman Dany Boon and one-time music-hall sensation Line Renaud (who played his mother in 2008 Euro-hit Bienvenue Chez Les Ch’tis), this two-hander has a strong conceit: Madeleine (Renaud) relives her life in the backseat of the cab driving her through Paris to a nursing home, with troubled chauffeur Charles (Boon) as her confessor. The film’s gaze is fixed in the rear-view mirror far more than the Before Sunset-style dalliance it occasionally resembles, but it’s not straightforwardly nostalgic.
Madeleine’s tale starts off rose-tinted: played in flashback by Alice Isaaz, she has a wartime romance with an American soldier, which produces a son. But after her Yank beau heads back over the Atlantic, she takes up with wrong ’un Ray (Jérémie Laheurte), who resents the...
- 11/13/2023
- by Phil Hoad
- The Guardian - Film News
While Hollywood writers are back at work, media companies have suspended negotiations with striking actors over a new contract. Even if talks resume and a settlement were to happen soon, however, it would likely be early 2024 before the two dozen or so dramas and comedies that normally premiere in the fall make it back onto screens.
As luck would have it, though, the era of peak streaming provides a nearly limitless array of series to watch. Below are a handful of new or recent lesser-known shows, many of them from outside the United States, on smaller streaming platforms (and one over-the-air network) that can help viewers fill in gaps in their viewing schedules while waiting for homegrown favorites to return. One bonus: None of the shows below are produced by companies against whom Hollywood’s unions are or were striking this year. Unless noted, all the streamers below offer seven-day...
As luck would have it, though, the era of peak streaming provides a nearly limitless array of series to watch. Below are a handful of new or recent lesser-known shows, many of them from outside the United States, on smaller streaming platforms (and one over-the-air network) that can help viewers fill in gaps in their viewing schedules while waiting for homegrown favorites to return. One bonus: None of the shows below are produced by companies against whom Hollywood’s unions are or were striking this year. Unless noted, all the streamers below offer seven-day...
- 10/14/2023
- by Rick Porter
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Paris Police 1900 blends police procedural and political thriller in La Belle Epoque. But this is no beautiful city. Paris is on the cusp of a new millennium. It is an old city overburdened by its rapidly rising population. Modernity is marching through art and architecture, science and technology, politics and the streets.
The series opens with the fellatio-related death of the French President Félix Faure (Denis Ardant) in February 1899. This event, along with the Dreyfus Affair, helps plunge French politics into turmoil and threatens the continuation of the Third Republic. Meanwhile a young police detective, Antoine Jouin (Jérémie Laheurte), is drawn into the investigation of a woman's murder. Her corpse was found dismembered, stuffed in a suitcase, floating in the Seine. Events transpire to draw the detective, the president's courtesan Marguerite Steinheil (Evelyne Brochu) and the newly appointed police prefect Louis Lépine (Marc Barbé) towards the heart of the...
The series opens with the fellatio-related death of the French President Félix Faure (Denis Ardant) in February 1899. This event, along with the Dreyfus Affair, helps plunge French politics into turmoil and threatens the continuation of the Third Republic. Meanwhile a young police detective, Antoine Jouin (Jérémie Laheurte), is drawn into the investigation of a woman's murder. Her corpse was found dismembered, stuffed in a suitcase, floating in the Seine. Events transpire to draw the detective, the president's courtesan Marguerite Steinheil (Evelyne Brochu) and the newly appointed police prefect Louis Lépine (Marc Barbé) towards the heart of the...
- 9/12/2022
- by Donald Munro
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Notre-Dame On Fire Trailer — Jean-Jacques Annaud‘s Notre-Dame On Fire / Notre-Dame brûle (2022) movie trailer has been released by Pathe. The Notre-Dame On Fire trailer stars Samuel Labarthe, Jean-Paul Bordes, Mikael Chirinian, Jérémie Laheurte, Chloé Jouannet, and Pierre Lottin. Crew The screenplay is written by Jean-Jacques Annaud and Thomas Bidegain. Produced by Jérôme Seydoux. Plot Synopsis Notre-Dame [...]
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- 6/20/2022
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
"Up there with a few men, we can do it." Pathe UK has released their own official UK trailer for the Notre-Dame On Fire movie from France, dramatizing the tragic fire at Paris's Notre Dame cathedral in 2019. The French title is just Notre-Dame Brûle and it's supposed to tell a story "from inside the Notre-Dame de Paris fire of April 2019." Made by the same director from Seven Years in Tibet and Enemy at the Gates, Frnech filmmaker Jean-Jacques Annaud who has stay away from Hollywood for a while now. The film retraces how heroic men & women firefighters put their lives on the line to accomplish this awe-inspiring rescue. The ensemble cast features Samuel Labarthe, Jean-Paul Bordes, Mikael Chirinian, Jérémie Laheurte, Chloé Jouannet, and Pierre Lottin. It's set to open in the UK this July after first premiering in France this March, but there's still no US plans yet. I guess...
- 6/15/2022
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Company enjoyed A-list festival success in 2021 with Cannes and Venice winners Titane and Happening.
Wild Bunch International (Wbi) has unveiled an eclectic French-language slate for 2022 featuring new films from Louis Garrel, Kim Chapiron, Alice Diop, Léa Mysius and Rebecca Zlotowski as well as directorial duo Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kervern.
The company is launching sales on the new French titles at the Unifrance Rendez-vous with French Cinema, which is scheduled to run as an in-person event in Paris from January 11 to 17.
Wild Bunch enjoyed a high-profile festival run for its 2021 slate which saw Titane win the Palme d’Or in...
Wild Bunch International (Wbi) has unveiled an eclectic French-language slate for 2022 featuring new films from Louis Garrel, Kim Chapiron, Alice Diop, Léa Mysius and Rebecca Zlotowski as well as directorial duo Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kervern.
The company is launching sales on the new French titles at the Unifrance Rendez-vous with French Cinema, which is scheduled to run as an in-person event in Paris from January 11 to 17.
Wild Bunch enjoyed a high-profile festival run for its 2021 slate which saw Titane win the Palme d’Or in...
- 1/5/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
"Be sure to use the fastest and surest channel. Your wait will seem long..." Pathe in France has revealed the first teaser trailer for a movie titled, in English, Notre-Dame On Fire - which is indeed a "blockbuster" about the Notre Dame fire in 2019. The French title is, amusingly, just Notre-Dame Brûle and it's supposed to tell a story "from inside the Notre-Dame de Paris fire of April 2019." The film retraces how heroic men & women firefighters put their lives on the line to accomplish an awe-inspiring rescue. The movie's ensemble cast features Samuel Labarthe, Jean-Paul Bordes, Mikael Chirinian, Jérémie Laheurte, Chloé Jouannet, and Pierre Lottin. Don't dismiss this one too soon! It's made by the same director as Seven Years in Tibet and Enemy at the Gates, so he certainly knows how to make a good movie. Yeah this looks excruciatingly cheesy, but hey, Hollywood makes disaster films like this...
- 12/21/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
We all know that person — maybe we’ve been there ourselves — hopelessly in love with an undeserving partner. Let’s call this person Lila. Lila’s backbone has dissolved into jelly; she mopes all the time and wallows in her masochism. It’s tough being around this acquaintance who keeps testing our capacity for sympathy, just as it’s tough being around Lila, the protagonist in Hafsia Herzi’s first feature as actress, director, writer and producer. Sure, it helps that Lila/Herzi has an impressive eye for male pulchritude, and she’s learned enough about filmmaking to deliver a perfectly respectable product, but it’s tedious watching Lila’s pouting irrationality without any sense of why this woman is catnip apart from her physical attractions. She’s merely the negative sum of her broken relationship, with all its storms and drama, and as such, “You Deserve a Lover” is...
- 6/2/2019
- by Jay Weissberg
- Variety Film + TV
"Our mission is to speak the truth to power." Aviron Pictures has just released the first full trailer for the journalism drama A Private War, the first feature film made by acclaimed Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker Matthew Heineman. The film stars Rosamund Pike as world renowned war journalist Marie Colvin, iconically identified by an eye-patch she wore after being injured covering a war. She was killed in 2012 in Syria, and the film documents her life and career and experiences leading up to her deciding to go into Syria to cover the Siege of Homs. The cast includes Jamie Dornan, Stanley Tucci, Tom Hollander, Alexandra Moen, Corey Johnson, and Jérémie Laheurte. I've been looking forward to seeing some footage from this, and it definitely looks promising. Colvin is an iconic journalist and it should be incredible to see her story told by Heineman, who has an impressive vérité style. Here's the first...
- 8/27/2018
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Jérémie Laheurte, who co-starred in the Golden Globe nominated French film, Blue Is the Warmest Color, as been cast alongside Mickey Rourke, Anne Heche and Analeigh Tipton in the futuristic sci-fi thriller Vestige, from Stephon Stewart. Set in a forlorn future controlled by artificial intelligence, the pic centers on a distraught Olympian figure skater (Tipton) who must overcome her demons and attempt to escape her infinite world to compete for the Winter Olympics against…...
- 12/8/2017
- Deadline
Blue Is the Warmest Color star Jeremie Laheurte will join Rosamund Pike and Jamie Dornan in A Private War, the war reporter drama from director Matthew Heineman (Cartel Land).
Laheurte will play the role of Remi Ochlik, the legendary French photographer killed in February 2012 alongside Sunday Times journalist Marie Colvin (played by Pike) in Syria. Ochlik covered major conflicts around the world, from Haiti and Egypt to Tunisia and Libya.
A Private War is being produced by Basil Iwanyk and Charlize Theron via their respective Thunder Road Pictures and Denver & Delilah banners. The script was adapted by...
Laheurte will play the role of Remi Ochlik, the legendary French photographer killed in February 2012 alongside Sunday Times journalist Marie Colvin (played by Pike) in Syria. Ochlik covered major conflicts around the world, from Haiti and Egypt to Tunisia and Libya.
A Private War is being produced by Basil Iwanyk and Charlize Theron via their respective Thunder Road Pictures and Denver & Delilah banners. The script was adapted by...
- 11/8/2017
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Blue Is The Warmest Colour | The Hunger Games: Catching Fire | Computer Chess : Parkland | The Family | Breakfast With Johnny Wilkinson | Flu | ¡Vivan Las Antipodas! | Vendetta
Blue Is The Warmest Colour (18)
(Abdellatif Kechiche, 2013, Fra/Bel/Sp) Adèle Exarchopoulos, Léa Seydoux, Jérémie Laheurte. 180 mins
Beyond making viewers feel lecherous, this Cannes winner's already notorious sexual frankness is just one element in an intense, sensual study of a young woman learning about love, life and, yes, sex. It's storytelling at its finest: simple but detailed, and at times unbearably emotional.
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (12A)
(Francis Lawrence, 2013, Us) Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson. 146 mins
The only post-Twilight teen franchise left standing brings media manipulation and simmering revolution to its next round of youth combat.
Computer Chess (15)
(Andrew Bujalski, 2013, Us) Patrick Riester, Myles Paige, James Curry. 91 mins
The cruddy video quality and geeky insularity of the early computing era are fondly rebooted in this delightful retro farce.
Blue Is The Warmest Colour (18)
(Abdellatif Kechiche, 2013, Fra/Bel/Sp) Adèle Exarchopoulos, Léa Seydoux, Jérémie Laheurte. 180 mins
Beyond making viewers feel lecherous, this Cannes winner's already notorious sexual frankness is just one element in an intense, sensual study of a young woman learning about love, life and, yes, sex. It's storytelling at its finest: simple but detailed, and at times unbearably emotional.
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (12A)
(Francis Lawrence, 2013, Us) Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson. 146 mins
The only post-Twilight teen franchise left standing brings media manipulation and simmering revolution to its next round of youth combat.
Computer Chess (15)
(Andrew Bujalski, 2013, Us) Patrick Riester, Myles Paige, James Curry. 91 mins
The cruddy video quality and geeky insularity of the early computing era are fondly rebooted in this delightful retro farce.
- 11/23/2013
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
November 1
Drinking Buddies
Director Joe Swanberg
Starring Anna Kendrick, Jake Johnson, Olivia Wilde
Running Time 90 mins
Certificate 15
Milius
Director Zak Knutson, Joey Figueroa
Starring John Milius, Francis Ford Coppola, Clint Eastwood
Running Time 101 mins
Certificate 15
Philomena
Director Stephen Frears
Starring Steve Coogan, Judi Dench, Charlie Murphy
Running Time 98 mins
Certificate 12A
Short Term 12
Director Destin Daniel Cretton
Starring Brie Larson, John Gallagher Jnr, Kaitlyn Dever
Running Time 97 mins
Certificate 15
November 8
Gravity
Director Alfonso Cuarón
Starring Sandra Bullock, George Clooney
Running Time 92 mins
Certificate 12A
Seduced and Abandoned
Director James Toback
Starring Ryan Gosling, Alec Baldwin, Diane Kruger
Running Time 98 mins
Certificate 15
November 15
The Butler
Director Lee Daniels
Starring Oprah Winfrey, Forest Whitaker, Vanessa Redgrave
Running Time 132 mins
Certificate 12A
The Counsellor
Director Ridley Scott
Starring Brad Pitt, Cameron Diaz, Michael Fassbender
Running Time 117 mins
Certificate 18
Dom Hemingway
Director Richard Shepard
Starring Jude Law, Richard E Grant, Emilia Clarke
Running...
Drinking Buddies
Director Joe Swanberg
Starring Anna Kendrick, Jake Johnson, Olivia Wilde
Running Time 90 mins
Certificate 15
Milius
Director Zak Knutson, Joey Figueroa
Starring John Milius, Francis Ford Coppola, Clint Eastwood
Running Time 101 mins
Certificate 15
Philomena
Director Stephen Frears
Starring Steve Coogan, Judi Dench, Charlie Murphy
Running Time 98 mins
Certificate 12A
Short Term 12
Director Destin Daniel Cretton
Starring Brie Larson, John Gallagher Jnr, Kaitlyn Dever
Running Time 97 mins
Certificate 15
November 8
Gravity
Director Alfonso Cuarón
Starring Sandra Bullock, George Clooney
Running Time 92 mins
Certificate 12A
Seduced and Abandoned
Director James Toback
Starring Ryan Gosling, Alec Baldwin, Diane Kruger
Running Time 98 mins
Certificate 15
November 15
The Butler
Director Lee Daniels
Starring Oprah Winfrey, Forest Whitaker, Vanessa Redgrave
Running Time 132 mins
Certificate 12A
The Counsellor
Director Ridley Scott
Starring Brad Pitt, Cameron Diaz, Michael Fassbender
Running Time 117 mins
Certificate 18
Dom Hemingway
Director Richard Shepard
Starring Jude Law, Richard E Grant, Emilia Clarke
Running...
- 10/31/2013
- Digital Spy
Acclaimed French filmmaker Abdellatif Kechiche’s latest, based on Julie Maroh’s graphic novel, was the sensation of this year’s Cannes Film Festival even before it was awarded the Palme d’Or. Adèle Exarchopoulos is a young woman whose longings and ecstasies and losses are charted across a span of several years. Léa Seydoux (Midnight in Paris) is the older woman who excites her desire and becomes the love of her life. Kechiche’s movie is, like the films of John Cassavetes, an epic of emotional transformation that pulses with gestures, embraces, furtive exchanges, and arias of joy and devastation. It is a profoundly moving hymn to both love and life. Starring Léa Seydoux, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Salim Kechiouchea and Jérémie Laheurte, Blue is the Warmest Color is rated Nc-17 and began its...
- 10/30/2013
- by Pietro Filipponi
- The Daily BLAM!
Say this for "Blue is the Warmest Color," the Cannes award winner that is as famous for its long, explicit sex scenes as it is for its honors and actresses: It earns the Nc-17 rating the MPAA imposed on it.
This overlong, somewhat sad-faced account of a lesbian romance, from its beginnings to its end, features what has already become the most notorious lesbian sex scene in screen history -- 10 minutes of grappling, groping and bare-skin slapping that flirts with pornography.
The movie surrounding that epic moment of titillation? A bit slack, repetitious and sometimes frustrating. "Blue," titled "La Vie Adele" in France, is a 100-minute movie straining to break out of a 3-hour-long argument for tighter editing.
We meet Adele (Adèle Exarchopoulos) as a 17-year-old high school junior with a lot of girlfriends given to frank talk about boys and sex. In a long first act, we see the bookish Adele,...
This overlong, somewhat sad-faced account of a lesbian romance, from its beginnings to its end, features what has already become the most notorious lesbian sex scene in screen history -- 10 minutes of grappling, groping and bare-skin slapping that flirts with pornography.
The movie surrounding that epic moment of titillation? A bit slack, repetitious and sometimes frustrating. "Blue," titled "La Vie Adele" in France, is a 100-minute movie straining to break out of a 3-hour-long argument for tighter editing.
We meet Adele (Adèle Exarchopoulos) as a 17-year-old high school junior with a lot of girlfriends given to frank talk about boys and sex. In a long first act, we see the bookish Adele,...
- 10/24/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
Title: Blue is the Warmest Color (La vie d’Adèle, Chapitres 1 et 2) Sundance Selects Director: Abdellatif Kechiche Screenwriter: Abdellatif Kechiche, Ghalya Lacroix, loosely adapted from the graphic novel “Blue Angel,” or “Le bleu est une couleur chaude” by Julie Maroh Cast: Léa Seydoux, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Salim Kechiouche, Jérémie Laheurte, Catherine Salée, Aurélien Recoing, Mona Walravens, Fanny Maurin, Benjámin Siksou, Sandor Funtek Screened at: Review 1, NYC, 10/17/13 Opens: October 25, 2013 Let me take a stab at what you’re going to say as you leave this film. “In my next life, I want to be French.” As we can see by Abdellatif Kechiche’s latest film, the French enjoy the [ Read More ]
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- 10/18/2013
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
Acclaimed French filmmaker Abdellatif Kechiche’s latest, based on Julie Maroh’s graphic novel, was the sensation of this year’s Cannes Film Festival even before it was awarded the Palme d’Or. Adèle Exarchopoulos is a young woman whose longings and ecstasies and losses are charted across a span of several years. Léa Seydoux (Midnight in Paris) is the older woman who excites her desire and becomes the love of her life. Kechiche’s movie is, like the films of John Cassavetes, an epic of emotional transformation that pulses with gestures, embraces, furtive exchanges, and arias of joy and devastation. It is a profoundly moving hymn to both love and life. Director: Abdellatif Kechiche Cast: Léa Seydoux, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Salim Kechiouche, Jérémie Laheurte Writers: Abdellatif Kechiche, Ghalia Lacroix, Julie Maroh...
- 10/10/2013
- ComicBookMovie.com
Acclaimed French filmmaker Abdellatif Kechiche’s latest, based on Julie Maroh’s graphic novel, was the sensation of this year’s Cannes Film Festival even before it was awarded the Palme d’Or. Adèle Exarchopoulos is a young woman whose longings and ecstasies and losses are charted across a span of several years. Léa Seydoux (Midnight in Paris) is the older woman who excites her desire and becomes the love of her life. Kechiche’s movie is, like the films of John Cassavetes, an epic of emotional transformation that pulses with gestures, embraces, furtive exchanges, and arias of joy and devastation. It is a profoundly moving hymn to both love and life. Starring Léa Seydoux, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Salim Kechiouchea and Jérémie Laheurte, Blue is the Warmest Color is rated Nc-17 and scheduled for...
- 9/23/2013
- by Pietro Filipponi
- The Daily BLAM!
Blue is the Warmest Color International Trailer. Abdellatif Kechiche‘s Blue is the Warmest Colour / La vie d’Adèle (2013) French movie trailer stars Adèle Exarchopoulos, Léa Seydoux, Jeremie Laheurte, Catherine Salée, and Aurélien Recoing. Blue is the Warmest Colour‘s plot synopsis: based on the Le Bleu est une couleur chaude [...]
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- 8/19/2013
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
Blue Is the Warmest Color movie: Julie Maroh discusses Abdellatif Kechiche’s failure to acknowledge her (photo: Léa Seydoux in Blue Is the Warmest Color) [See previous post: "Lesbian Sex Scenes 'Turned into Porn' Complains Blue Is the Warmest Color Author."] In the segment below (translated from the French original found here), Julie Maroh describes her less-than-satisfying professional relationship with Abdellatif Kechiche. I’m not a mind reader, but I do believe that her last couple of sentences carry a heavy dose of irony. (See also “Blue is the Warmest Color release date?“) This finale at Cannes is evidently incredible, breathtaking. … Tonight, I discovered that it was the first time in film history that a "comic strip" [graphic novel] inspired a Palme d’Or winner, and this thought leaves me petrified. … I’d like to thank everyone who was astonished, shocked, disgusted that Kechiche didn’t say a thing about me while accepting the Palme d’Or. I have no doubts that he had good reasons for not having done so,...
- 5/30/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Deriving its English title, Blue is the Warmest Colour, from the source graphic novel Le Bleu est une couleur chaude by Julie Maroh, La Vie D’Adele Chapitres 1 et 2 (its French title) is the fifth film from director Abdellatif Kechiche, since his debut in 2000 with La Faute a Voltaire, and it is certainly destined to put him on the radar of a number of cinephiles that have not yet seen his work.
Chronicling the transformative relationship that the lead character of Adele (Adele Exarchopoulos) has with the blue-haired Emma (Lea Seydoux), Blue is the Warmest Colour is an intimate and intense emotional epic that quickly banishes any negative connotations that the phrase ‘coming of age drama’ may evoke.
Adele’s first sexual encounter, that we see, is with a boy named Thomas (Jeremie Laheurte), a perfectly pleasant young man but one whose interests and outlook on life don’t really seem to click with Adele.
Chronicling the transformative relationship that the lead character of Adele (Adele Exarchopoulos) has with the blue-haired Emma (Lea Seydoux), Blue is the Warmest Colour is an intimate and intense emotional epic that quickly banishes any negative connotations that the phrase ‘coming of age drama’ may evoke.
Adele’s first sexual encounter, that we see, is with a boy named Thomas (Jeremie Laheurte), a perfectly pleasant young man but one whose interests and outlook on life don’t really seem to click with Adele.
- 5/28/2013
- by Craig Skinner
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Blue is the Warmest Colour Clips, Poster. Abdellatif Kechiche‘s Blue is the Warmest Colour / La vie d’Adèle (2013) movie clips, movie poster stars Adèle Exarchopoulos, Léa Seydoux, Jeremie Laheurte, Catherine Salée, and Aurélien Recoing. Blue is the Warmest Colour‘s plot synopsis: based on the Le Bleu est une couleur chaude [...]
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- 5/27/2013
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
Blue Is the Warmest Color: Oscars? Césars? European Film Awards? (Picture: Léa Seydoux, Abdellatif Kechiche, and Adèle Exarchopoulos at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival awards ceremony) [See previous post: "Lesbian love story Blue Is the Warmest Color wins Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or."] Both Adèle Exarchopoulos and Léa Seydoux, director-co-screenwriter Abdellatif Kechiche, and Blue Is the Warmest Color itself are all shoo-ins for the 2014 Césars and near-shoo-ins for the European Film Awards. Kechiche has already won two Best Director / Best Screenplay / Best Film Césars: for Games of Love and Chance (2003) and The Secret of the Grain (2007, produced by Claude Berri). Even so, he has never been shortlisted for the European Film Awards; yet, at the very least one nomination — Best European Film, Best Director, or Best Screenplay — is all but guaranteed later this year. Needless to say, at this stage it’s impossible to know if Blue Is the Warmest Color will be France’s submission for the 2014 Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award. In case Kechiche’s...
- 5/27/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Le bleu est une couleur chaude (Blue Is a Hot Color)
Director/Writer/: Abdellatif Kechiche
Producer(s): Kechiche’s Quat’sous Films & Wild Bunch
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Adèle Exarchopoulos, Léa Seydoux, Jeremie Laheurte, Catherine Salée, Aurélien Recoing, Sandor Funtek
Almost Kubrick-like with how demanding he is of each scene, Abdellatif Kechiche has been developing his signature style (long takes that magnify everything that surrounds the human condition) focusing on the fringe characters of society since his debut 2000′s La Faute à Voltaire and expertly with 2007′s The Secret of the Grain. His fifth feature film is an adaptation from a graphic novel – his second adaptation.
Gist: This centers on Jocelyne (Adèle Exarchopoulos), who is 15 years old and is certain of two things: she is a girl, and girls go out with boys. On the day in which she spots Emma’s (Léa Seydoux) blue hair on the Grand Place,...
Director/Writer/: Abdellatif Kechiche
Producer(s): Kechiche’s Quat’sous Films & Wild Bunch
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Adèle Exarchopoulos, Léa Seydoux, Jeremie Laheurte, Catherine Salée, Aurélien Recoing, Sandor Funtek
Almost Kubrick-like with how demanding he is of each scene, Abdellatif Kechiche has been developing his signature style (long takes that magnify everything that surrounds the human condition) focusing on the fringe characters of society since his debut 2000′s La Faute à Voltaire and expertly with 2007′s The Secret of the Grain. His fifth feature film is an adaptation from a graphic novel – his second adaptation.
Gist: This centers on Jocelyne (Adèle Exarchopoulos), who is 15 years old and is certain of two things: she is a girl, and girls go out with boys. On the day in which she spots Emma’s (Léa Seydoux) blue hair on the Grand Place,...
- 1/15/2013
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
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