Blue — the warmest color
The picture is very different from its original source, but most often for the better. So, as a film adaptation of the comic, the film was really successful. And regarding its content, continues the modern tradition of stories of sexual maturation of young people. Kesheish takes from the comic only the main motives, not focusing on small details and not transferring various trifles to the screen, and also rather conditionally wedges some moments of the life of the main character.
Three-hour timekeeping is absolutely not felt, but a short or fleeting film is also not called. He immerses himself, telling a beautiful love story of a girl lost in her addictions, trying just to find her happiness. Adele really often looks dreamy, or confused, not quite sure what to do next. To play a fifteen-year-old teenager in eighteen-year-old Exarchopoulos managed to all hundred, but the film covers several years of the heroine’s life, and her development, as well as growing up, does not look like a special movement forward. The seriousness of the situation is due to only one emotional intensity. The only scandal that puts the final point, in the rehearsal of life situations looks more like a slap in fate and the beginning of a new stage.
Despite the overall duration, the director sometimes misses various important points. For example, the first, shown in the film, Adele’s novel, is fleeting with a break for no apparent reason, with all the frankness of the story told, the theme of the first sex does not rise or play out. Well, the heroine of Leia Seydoux – Emma never asked why blue, or rather blue, the color she chose for her hair. Kesheesh for some reason strives for realism, suppressing all possible symbolism, while in the dialogues for some reason skip the discussion of philosophy and the opposition of a couple of types of painting, but the film does not even have a composer and all the spiritual, sexual and sensual moments are served vitally - without a soundtrack, although the music in the film is - street songs, tracks in clubs and everything like that gives music in real life.
However, in the most provocative highlight of the film – frank protracted lesbian sex, everything looks artistic and cinematic, ostentatious and spectacular, having almost nothing to do with reality, for which the film was criticized directly by real lesbians. However, in addition to Adele and Emma, the rest, flashing for the background of lesbians are shown in a much more vital light than any erotic film played by porn actresses. The best of the possible censorship ratings of the United States — NC-17 film received for good reason, but the junction of art with directorial realism beats contrasts from stage to stage and it was hardly such a special author’s idea.
It is curious that the director almost does not touch the main theme of the original comic book - about the rejection of same-sex unions by society, as a result, the number of plot conflicts tends to be minimized (although there is school expression from friends), and the heroines do not confront the public, singing some of the same provocative group Tatu "We will not catch up" there. This makes the film softer, kinder and more tolerant. The director, on the contrary, in the scene with Emma's parents, rather even focuses on a quite peaceful and approving attitude to the lesbian inclinations of her daughter. Thus, instead of social agitation, Keshish makes a beautiful movie about love, focusing on the couple’s internal relationships rather than on Adele and Emma’s external interactions with the environment and society.
The life and life of the main character is chicly revealed, and even a kind of fleeting family dinner very competently places accents on the characters of parents, and a school quarrel helps to express itself most clearly to the environment and friends. Framing the characters around Adele blooms in different colors, but with the advent of blue-haired beauty, the world is transformed much more, brighter and stronger, making sense and filling the very emptiness that the school teacher tells about in the opening scene. The beauty of many moments is incredibly pleasing to the eye, a flowering pink tree in the scene of parting with a guy, falling autumn leaves in longing for a beloved girl, calm and thoughtful views mixed with energetic belly dance or directly with bed scenes.
Sex and eroticism were not enough in the comic-source, but the film, fortunately, moved much further, overtaking and doing all such pictures. Kesheesh, however, did not go for more daring provocations and the actress took the role still eighteen-year-old, but few of the film can boast of such erotic sketches, and “Life of Adele” pleases both quality and quantity. The leading lesbian scene is really charming and magnificent, but it is not only the film that can boast and delight.
Leading actresses arrange their brightest benefit. It would seem that Adele recently played in “Tomboys from Timpelbach”, and Seyd could be remembered only for the roles of the second or third plan in “Goodbye, my Queen”, “Mission: Impossible 4”, “Inglourious Basterds”, “Midnight in Paris” and “Robin Hood” Ridley Scott, and now really the second leading game and complete creative freedom to submit the character. And Leia and Adele laid out perfectly, the love story of their heroines is one of the greatest works of cinema!
Yes, there may be even more dream-dreams in the beginning, given by just one short scene. And in the finale, on the contrary, the scene in the gallery-exhibition looks like an epilogue, but only another slap in the face from life to Adele, forced to gain strength again and move on, but the overall production and camera work are simply amazing and above all praise, as well as emotionally laid out actresses who animated this plot with their incredible sensuality and bright talent.
Despite the fact that Kesheesh does not focus on youth demonstrations and focuses too much on teenage smoking, rejecting side factors and opportunities to arrange a more provocative or stylistic comic film on such a basis, the main and main line is permeated with emotions abundantly and through. All experiences and feelings are brought to the fore, exposing all joys and tragedies, dreams and disappointments. The film perfectly keeps the rhythm, slowly starting and swinging in a household atmosphere, growing into a bright and juicy tale of same-sex love, beautiful and erotic, very energetic and eventful, with a slightly sad ending, but this is only chapters 1 and 2, Adele still has a whole life ahead, not ending at all, when she sits in tears alone in a cafe, looking at a couple of old lesbians nearby, and leaving Emma, already with a natural hair color, in the glow of neon lamps blue corridor with the same blue hair again seems to the girl.
10 out of 10
Original
