Cannes 2013: Blue Is The Warmest Colour Wins The Palme D'Or

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Cannes 2013: Blue Is The Warmest Colour Wins The Palme D'Or
The Coens' Inside Llewyn Davis takes the Grand Prix

26 May 2013 | Written by Ali Plumb

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Some critics, including our very owen Damon Wise, thought that French director Abdellatif Kechiche's three-hour coming of age love story would be too sexually graphic for jury president Steven Spielberg to put his name to it, but Blue Is The Warmest Colour – also known as La Vie D'Adèle Chapitre 1 et 2 – has won out, taking home the coveted Palme d'Or.

Its "shockingly graphic" yet "epic and intimate" lesbian sex scenes between newcomer Adele Exarchopoulos and Lea Seydoux (Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, Robin Hood, Midnight In Paris) were the talk of the Croisette ever since it screened in the second half of the festival, with most of the conversation centring on whether what was seen actually took place. The secret? Prosthetics. No, really.

Elsewhere, The Coen brothers tale of '60s folkery, Inside Llewyn Davis, won the Grand Prix, which many consider to be the runner-up prize by any other name. Berenice Bejo, of The Artist fame, nabbed the Best Actress award for her work in Asghar Farhadi's The Past, while Bruce Dern has the Best Actor prize to keep him company on the flight home for his work in Alexander Payne's Nebraska.

For everything you need to know about this year's festival, cast your eyes in the direction of our Cannes 2013 microsite, which features news, initial reaction reviews and the infamous videblogisodes.

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    Blue Is The Warmest Colour Trailer Arrives
    Controversial Cannes drama gets a promo
    19 September 2013 | Written by James White | Source: Apple

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    Abdellatif Kechiche’s Blue Is The Warmest Colour was acclaimed at Cannes, praised by festival jury president Steven Spielberg and handed the Palme d’Or. But it has since run into controversy, not least for lengthy explicit sex scenes and criticism of the director by his stars, Lea Seydoux and Adèle Exarchopoulos. Now the trailer is online at Apple.

    The film is based on Julie Maroh’s graphic novel, and follows Adèle (Exarchopoulos), a young woman whose longings and ecstasies and losses are charted across a span of several years. She meets Emma (Seydoux), who is the older woman that excites her desire and becomes the love of her life. As their relationship blossoms and stumbles, we witness gestures, embraces, furtive exchanges, and arias of joy and devastation.

    Despite the comments by the leads – and Maroh, who was not too thrilled with the adaptation and the way it treated the relationship – the film has been winning praise and criticism in equal measure. Slapped with an NC-17 rating in the States, the drama has been playing the festival circuit, but will hit our cinemas on November 15.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Stnq8tMiNDs

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