La vie d'Adèle"
(original title)
NC-17
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Drama,
Romance
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9 October 2013
(France)
9 October 2013
(France)
7.9
Ratings:
7.9/10 from 70,840 users
Metascore: 88/100
Reviews: 228 user | 383 critic | 41 from Metacritic.com
Reviews: 228 user | 383 critic | 41 from Metacritic.com
Adele's life is changed when she meets Emma, a young woman with blue
hair, who will allow her to discover desire, to assert herself as a
woman and as an adult. In front of others, Adele grows, seeks herself,
loses herself and ultimately finds herself through love and loss.
Director:
Abdellatif Kechiche
Writers:
Abdellatif Kechiche (scenario, adaptation and dialogue),
Ghalia Lacroix (scenario, adaptation and dialogue), 1 more credit »
Stars:
Léa Seydoux, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Salim Kechiouche | See full cast and crew »Storyline
Adèle is a high school student who is beginning to explore herself as a
woman. She dates men but finds no satisfaction with them sexually, and
is rejected by a female friend who she does desire. She dreams of
something more. She meets Emma who is a free spirited girl whom Adèle's
friends reject due to her sexuality, and by association most begin to
reject Adèle. Her relationship with Emma grows into more than just
friends as she is the only person with whom she can express herself
openly. Together, Adèle and Emma explore social acceptance, sexuality,
and the emotional spectrum of their maturing relationship.
Written by
~mEp (mep1)
User Reviews
A movie you can't forget
Cinematic orgasm.
Cinematic. Orgasm. Put the words together and separately, it does not
matter actually. I was watching the film with a sense of bitten apricot
in my mouth, so from time to time I kept checking if indeed something
was dripping from my lips . In any case, you can feel all kinds of
dripping in this garden of delight and from many different angles. A
deep diving into puberty, into the raw desires of youth, above the
thunderous victory of human need. Adele is the personification of youth,
just in time when it begins to grown. That exact moment when the juices
of love are instantly aggressive and the human body seems like a fruit
with the heart as a kernel. When you are in the midst of immortality,
gaining the illusion of eternity, just before the fruit is eaten,
shortly before the kernel sits at your neck with the bitter taste of
rejection, while you greedily swallow life, which seems so
inexhaustible. I left my local cinema with the feeling of a hot lump in
my throat and stomach. As a teenager in love and disappointed at the
same time. And from that moment I keep seeing little hearts and stars
everywhere. I keep seeing Adele everywhere.
