The almost messy female erotica is indeed impressive, but it is actually a passionate and sophisticated love story. (")
With the stunning performances of the two heroines, the film has opened up a new field in the theme of lesbian romance; however, the bedroom scenes are rich in connotation and meaningful, emotionally and psychologically touching. ()
The true meaning of "Adele's Life" is not in love, not in lesbians, let alone sex, but in the invisible but looming class gap. There are real and familiar campus life in the film. Among the three-hour video recording, the most faithful is the seemingly casual dialogue. The director secretly made an abbreviation: Between ordinary girls who love to read and Lala who is influenced by art, there are actually a hundred Sagans separated. The reason why "Adele's Life" was able to aspire to Palme d'Or and shortlisted in each of the annual Top10s is not only the inner experience of the girl's love adventure, but also the external cruelty after love. It has nothing to do with men and jealousy, these superficial warmth and infatuation are just another beautiful lie in the sun.
Different from Chinese-style reminiscence of youth, Japanese-style cruel youth, American-style show off youth, here in the French director, youth is a forbidden fruit filled with romance and passion. People are not but regretful. Adele and Emma smiled and exchanged greetings, crying and leaving, as if dying in brilliance and rebirth in Nirvana. Looking back at the title, everything must ultimately be subordinated to life: life drives people to deal with in a fixed frame, and there is not too much possibility of overstepping. Adele did not suffer from terminal illness like the original book. She just put Emma's washed blue on her body, leaving a cluster of blue flames in her heart. This is the light of her life and the fire of desire, which has crossed her. Penetrating into the mirage proves that she had worked hard to live a prosperous life before a life of no one and mediocre.
In fact, after watching the whole movie, I feel that it is not necessarily about same-sex emotions, but has nothing to do with gender. For Adele, she was not a firm homosexual or heterosexual, and would always be attracted to unique people, whether they were male or female. So she didn't like women, she just fell in love with this special woman named Emma. At the end of the movie, she wore a blue dress to participate in Emma's painting exhibition. She wandered around in the space, and people couldn't help but wonder whether she was looking for her shadow in each painting.
In terms of content, "The Life of Adele" has a very profound and complicated social background. In addition to the expression of the living conditions of North African immigrants in France, the film also involves the current legalization of same-sex marriage in France, as well as the themes of young girls' rebellion, love and growth. Its connotation is enough for film critics to draw various interpretations. In addition, the film also has many commendable aspects in terms of image expression, especially the photography of the film, which is extremely delicate and vivid. More than half of the film is a close-up of the two protagonists, and there are large and long shots. Fortunately, the two girls are not ugly, otherwise it is difficult to imagine a face flooding in front of the camera for so long.
"The Life of Adele" is like a prose, not a narrative. In the best years of a girl’s life, she split her legs, lost her body, loved her deeply, and confided her, and then used the short-term reunion with her old love and leaving behind her back to end a thought without regrets. Lost wonderful. From this perspective, "Adele's Life" talks about more than Adele, all women can find their own shadows more or less from it. The tone of the film is sad but not hurt. This is actually a film about women. An emotional documentary of his half-life.
