Why do some film directors abuse their actors? - Telegraph (Jesse Duncan) Lea Seydoux and newcomer Adele Exarchopoulos headline writer-director Abdellatif Kechiche's latest exploration of love, loss and class. Adèle Exarchopoulos and Léa Seydoux grew close over the five-and-a-half-month shoot and are so affectionate together that they're often mistaken for a real couple. Adèle, a fifteen-year-old high-school student, has already spotted Emma, a blue-haired sparkplug, on the street, and pleasured herself to thoughts of her.
Unhappy: French actresses Lea Seydoux, left, and Adele Exarchopoulos, right, star in Blue is the Warmest Colour.
In a star-making role, Adèle Exarchopoulos is Adèle, a passionate young woman who has a yearning she doesn't quite understand until a chance Pulsing with gestures, embraces, furtive exchanges, and arias of joy and devastation, Blue is the Warmest Color is a profoundly moving hymn to both love.
In "Blue Is the Warmest Color," which took home the Palme d'Or at Cannes, our brightly burning heroines first meet in a lesbian bar in Lille. Adèle: At the beginning, when we were cast, we read the graphic novel. Lea Seydoux and newcomer Adele Exarchopoulos headline writer-director Abdellatif Kechiche's latest exploration of love, loss and class.
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