Several female directors, she added: “It’s a much more equal Sexuality, she replied: “Without a doubt, yes, I think it was.
Retrospect, she considered the movie to be a male fantasy of female Happened, but I don’t regret what I said. She vowed to never work with director Abdellatif Kechiche again, though her feelings have now mellowed… a bit.Ībout him – but I’m not mad at him. Palme d'Or at Cannes in 2013, Seydoux fell out with the director and said in an interview that the gruelling shoot was ‘horrible’ and left her feeling ‘like a prostitute’. In my case especially, it is almost impossible for me to remain “objective” about Blue Is The Warmest Color because I am still stunned at how many similarities there are between it and what happened in my own life.That the explicit but award-winning film that made her name, lesbian drama ‘Blue Is The Warmest Colour’, was a ‘male fantasy’. Of course, with any art form, people bring their already familiar experiences to bear on something new that they interpret before them. I think the best art provides us with an understanding and a new perspective on life that we did not have before. I emerged a different person from this experience and I am so glad to have felt it. Then, it will brutally rip your heart and soul out and present both in their purest state for your consideration. It explores the entire spectrum of human emotion: wild, passionate love and joy calm reflection and peace fearful confusion, regret, and loneliness crushing rage, betrayal, and denial and a howling, drowning wave of such profound despair, that although its echoes may eventually recede into a tolerable tide, it is ceaseless.īlue Is The Warmest Color will teach you to know your soul and be accustomed to the presence of your heart, what it means to participate in the human experience. This is an experience in the most fundamental sense of the word:it moves you deeply, then when you’re vulnerable, mercilessly scatters you, invading your thoughts so some nights you find yourself still awake, lost in its embrace. I think it is a masterfully crafted film in every respect, but to just use the simple term of “film” does not fully capture its essence. If Blue Is The Warmest Color had become a film a few years ago and I’d seen it then, perhaps I would have lived my life differently.