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Blue is the warmest colour nude scenes11/12/2022 ![]() The French Audiovisual and Cinematographic Union issued a report alleging that there was “harassment” on set. Things proceeded to get a great deal worse for Mr Kechiche. “The gay and queer people laughed because it’s not convincing, and found it ridiculous.” “The heteronormative laughed because they don’t understand it and find the scene ridiculous,” she said. Then Julie Maroh, author of the source graphic novel, popped up to offer her own criticisms of the sex sequences. Manohla Dargis of the New York Times (a dissenter from the initial critical consensus) worried about “the way it frames, with scrutinizing closeness, the female body”. Right? But the fact that the three main participants – director and two actors – were straight did threaten to kick up a few questions as regards style and emphasis. Few people who mattered were likely to get in a kerfuffle over the relative explicitness of the lesbian sex scenes. Most observers applauded another successful bash by the Riviera.īut trouble was brewing. In order to get around Cannes’ weird rule that prohibits the awarding of acting prizes to the Palme d’Or winner, Steven Spielberg’s jury granted Adèle Exarchopoulos and Léa Seydoux – the lead performers – their own honorary Palmes d’Or. I simply didn’t grasp the impression it had made.”īy the time the top prize was announced, Blue is the Warmest Colour was the runaway favourite. I was more concerned about the sound, the quality of the image and so on. “At that screening it was the first time I had seen it on a big screen. “Initially I wasn’t aware of anything like that,” Kechiche says. By the close, many punters were convinced they had seen the Palme d’Or winner. Few previous pictures have charted the dynamics of love with such near-scientific rigour. ![]() But, as the action crept on, it became clear that we were watching something extraordinary. The Franco-Tunisian director had won plaudits for his 2007 film Couscous – an intense, realist drama concerning a Mediterranean restaurateur – but he had nothing like the recognition factor of fellow competitors such as Roman Polanski, Steven Soderbergh or Jim Jarmusch.Ī three-hour study of the relationship between a young artist and a budding teacher, the film sounded as if it might be hard work. When, at the start of this year, the programme for the Cannes Film Festival was unveiled, Abdellatif Kechiche’s Blue is the Warmest Colour did not feature prominently in many previews. ![]() It seems like a long time since we got ourselves in a tizzy over the explicit sexual content in a motion picture. ![]()
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