The 2013 Cannes Film Festival, officially opened by The Great Gatsby, has just turned off its glamorous lights on this year's red carpet. I was thinking how curious it is that just on the day when thousands of French people protested, marching along the streets in Paris, against gay marriages, the experts at the Festival have chosen as best movie the French film "La vie d'Adèle" (based on the French graphic novel Le Bleu est une couleur chaude (Blue is the Warmest Colour) . Directed by Abdellatif Kechiche, the film won the Palme d'Or (see a clip here).
What are the true colours of France today?
Yes, because this film features "the most explosively graphic lesbian sex scenes in recent memory" according to Justin Chang writing for Variety and may require some editing (censorhip?) before it is screened in cinemas.
At the beginning of the story, 15-year-old Adèle (Adèle Exarchopoulos) has no doubt : a girl must date boys. Her life is turned upside down when she meets Emma (Léa Seydoux), a blue haired young woman, which allows her to discover desire and to assert herself as a woman and an adult. In the look of others, Adèle grows, looks for herself, loses herself and finds herself again.