Blue Is the Warmest Colour
A French teenager's life and sense of herself are transformed by a passionate first love with an older art student, and by its painful end.
Cannes Palme d'Or 2013 won
Adele, a French teenager, is drawn out of her expected life by a passionate love affair with Emma, an older art student with blue hair. The relationship becomes the ground of her adult identity, and its slow, painful end marks her deeply.
The film follows sexual awakening, first love and its loss as a process of identity formation and of grief for a foundational relationship. It offers a clinician an unusually sustained account of how desire and heartbreak shape a young self. It won the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 2013, adapted from the graphic novel Blue Is the Warmest Color by Julie Maroh.
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- 2013
- France
- French
- Film