Their faces inches apart, the tension that builds is both beautiful and unbearable, their first kiss tender and timorous. The visual intimacy effectively communicates what it feels like to be in love-like there is no world outside of these two characters, only the here and now. As the two spend languorous afternoons together picnicking in the park and wandering museums, the director hones in on his actressesвЂ™ faces-so much so that the world completely recedes into the background. Though the attraction is immediate, Kechiche takes his time with narrative foreplay.

Uncertain and underage, her eyes dart around with nervous curiosity before finally landing upon Emma once again. In search of distraction-or, perhaps fulfillment-AdГЁle wanders into the cityвЂ™s lesbian watering hole. Indulging his flirtations, she eventually allows him into her bed but the sexual encounter leaves her overwrought with a sense of emptiness. Oblivious to her own physical beauty, itвЂ™s AdГ©leвЂ™s gaggle of more sexually experienced girlfriends that draw her attention to the fact that one of the senior class studs has been eyeing her for days. The brief moment of intense eye contact is enough to leave AdГЁle reeling and breathless in the middle of oncoming traffic, but itвЂ™s not until the vision in blue pays her a visit as a masturbatory apparition one night that she begins to fully understand why.

Though slightly on the nose (вЂњI am a woman, and I am telling you my story,вЂќ one student reads aloud) the classroom discussion surrounding love at first sight and pre-destination aptly foreshadows the fleeting encounter she has soon after with a blue-haired girl crossing the street. When we first observe her in the context of her high-school literature class (appropriately studying MarivauxвЂ™s La vie de Marianne) she is as astutely observant as she is completely unsure of herself, gaping at ideas that exceed her own experience. A literal and figurative coming of age tale, Blue is the Warmest Color expresses the frequently abstracted concept of love-and loss-as itвЂ™s actually experienced: by way of the flesh.ДЄdГЁle-as both a character and an actress-doesnвЂ™t think so much as she intuits, and her erratic grades reflect the вЂњall-or-nothingвЂќ nature of her emotions: She can only perform when inspired. More than just a clever post-coital quip, AdГЁleвЂ™s sensualist spin on the existential argument encapsulates the filmвЂ™s thematic essence.

While her mother naively believes her to be receiving platonic philosophy lessons from her significantly older, Sartre-reading friend, Emma (LГ©a Seydoux), she has in fact been mastering the fine art of cunnilingus. вЂњOrgasm precedes essence,вЂќ the 18-year-old AdГЁle (AdГЁle Exarchopoulos) contentedly jokes to her lover following one of three already-infamous sex scenes in Abdellatif KechicheвЂ™s controversial Palm dвЂ™Or winner, Blue is the Warmest Color.

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