After Emma shows up at the school, Adèle's friends suspect her of being a lesbian and ostracise her.Īdèle and Emma grow closer and kiss at a picnic. The blue-haired woman, art student Emma, is there and intervenes, claiming Adèle is her cousin. Adèle later leaves and enters a lesbian bar, where some women flirt with her. Béatrice says she doesn't want to proceed further and tells Adèle to forget the kiss.Īdèle's best friend, the openly gay Valentin, takes her to a gay dance bar. After having vivid fantasies about the blue-haired woman and kissing Béatrice, one of her female friends, Adèle becomes troubled about her sexual identity. She sleeps with a boy from school but is ultimately dissatisfied and ends their relationship.

She passes an older woman with short blue hair in the streets one day and is instantly attracted. Īdèle is an introverted 15-year-old high-school student. Many critics declared it one of the best films of 2013. It received critical acclaim and was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film and the BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language. The film had its North American premiere at the 2013 Telluride Film Festival. It is the first film to have the Palme d'Or awarded to both the director and the lead actresses, with Seydoux and Exarchopoulos joining Jane Campion ( The Piano) and later Julia Ducournau ( Titane) as the only women to have won the award.

Īt the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, the film unanimously won the Palme d'Or from the official jury and the FIPRESCI Prize. Much of the controversy was about claims of poor working conditions on set alleged by the crew and the lead actresses, and also the film's raw depiction of sexuality. The film generated controversy upon its premiere at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival and before its release. Approximately 800 hours of footage was shot, including extensive B-roll footage, with Kechiche ultimately trimming the final cut of the film down to 179 minutes. Production began in March 2012 and lasted five months. The premise of the film is based on the 2010 graphic novel of the same name by Jul Maroh. It charts their relationship from Adèle's high school years to her early adult life and career as a school teacher. The film follows Adèle (Exarchopoulos), a French teenager who discovers desire and freedom as an aspiring painter Emma (Seydoux) enters her life. Blue Is the Warmest Colour ( French: La Vie d'Adèle – Chapitres 1 & 2 French pronunciation: ) is a 2013 romance film co-written, co-produced, and directed by Abdellatif Kechiche starring Léa Seydoux and Adèle Exarchopoulos.

Blue is the warmest color love scene