For the past few months, news outlets, tabloids and Twitter feeds have been aflutter with a sexy, political, French melodramaβthis time not involving any Sarkozys or Strauss-Kahns. Nevertheless, it arrives Stateside this fall. Blue is based on the graphic novel Le Bleu Est Une Couleur Chaude by Julie Maroh, and its main character is a year-old disquieted beauty, exquisitely rendered by Exarchopoulos, who has an erotic awakening upon crossing paths with Emma played by Seydoux in the film , a confident, cobalt-haired college student studying art.
Their lust at first sight evolves and unravels throughout a highly nuanced three hours, punctuated not only by ample girl-on-girl action but by a violent confrontation involving a literal bitch slap. Along with Jane Campion , Seydoux and Exarchopoulos are the only women to have ever received the prestigious festival award, an honor they shared in a three-way win with Kechiche, who has reputation for socio-political cinema.
As it turns out, the film debuted just as gay-marriage legislation passed in France, though its leading ladies say they are less concerned with activism than they are with acting. Exarchopoulos, meanwhile, is teaming up with Sara Forestier, another veteran Kechiche discovery, now making her directorial debut. Exarchopoulos will play a stutterer.
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