For most viewers, the original graphic novel – only recently translated into English – will be little more than a titular presence, so the freedom of Kechiche’s adaptation rightly won’t concern them. While borrowing the source text’s lesbian relationship, the film strips out both the narrative structure – in which Emma reads her ex-girlfriend’s diary after her death, coming to understand and confront the painful effect of the latter’s parents’ homophobia – and the attendant political implications of Maroh’s depiction of a profound connection between lovers across age, class and sexual identity.
Secondarily (although it has received the most attention), this is also a loose adaptation of Julie Maroh’s graphic novel Le bleu est une couleur chaude, recounting the relationship, from love at first sight to stormy break-up via uninhibited sex, between straight-identified lycée student Adèle and out, blue-haired artist Emma. The first is a Bildungsroman about a young working-class woman exploring her appetites and identity, carried by a central performance of astounding stamina and honesty by Adèle Exarchopoulos, as Adèle, who is on screen almost constantly, often centrally framed in tight close-ups. Screenplay Abdellatif Kechiche, Ghalya Lacroixįreely inspired by the graphic novel Le bleu est une couleur chaude by Julie MarohĮditing Camille Toubkis, Albertine Lastera, Ghalya Lacroix, Jean-Marie Lengelle, Sophie BrunetĪrt Direction Department Bahijja El Amrani, Michel Gionti, Julia Lemaire, Sylvain Phan, Coline Debee, Marie Charpentier, Zoe GoetgheluckĬostume Department Paloma Garcia Martens, Dorothée Lissac, Lucie Maggiar, Sylvie Letellier, Fetene Ben Nasr, Roxane Guigaįrench theatrical title La Vie d’Adèle Chapitre 1 et 2 Produced by Brahim Chioua, Vincent Maraval, Abdellatif Kechiche Referring to the ‘before’ and ‘after’ of a lesbian relationship in the life of protagonist Adèle, the title could also refer to the two films that have been awkwardly intertwined. The original French title is the more accurate: this is a film of two halves. Abdellatif Kechiche’s La Vie d’Adèle, Chapitre 1 & 2 has been retitled Blue Is the Warmest Colour for its international release.
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