Emma: I was big on Sartre in high school.

Adèle: Really?

Emma: It did me good. Especially in affirming my freedom and my own values. And the rigorousness of his commitments. I agree with it.

Adèle: Sort of like Bob Marley. Almost.

Emma: [laughs] I'm not so sure of it.

Adèle: I'm almost sure of it. Their ideas are similar. You know "Get Up, Stand Up"?

Emma: Yeah I know it.

Adèle: He's committed.

Emma: [Nodding in agreement] It's true.

Adèle: Same as Sartre. A philosopher, a prophet, same thing.
Adèle: You don't love me anymore?
Emma: You still need some practice.

Adèle: I'll give it all I've got.
Emma: Why are you lying?

Adèle: I'm not lying.

Emma: Then why are you crying?

Adèle: I'm not crying.
Thomas: It wasn't good?

Adèle: Yes. It was great.
Emma: It's nice here.

Adèle: [nods]

Emma: A little too nice?

Adèle: I guess so.
Adèle: He's not the problem. I'm missing something. I'm all messed up. I'm crazy.
Emma: But I have infinite tenderness for you. I always will. My whole life.
Adèle: I miss you. I miss not touching each other. Not seeing each other, not breathing in each other. I want you. All the time. No one else.
Adèle: I am happy. I'm happy with you, like this. It's my way of being happy.
Adèle: You're talking crap in front of everyone! I'm not a lesbian!
Valentin: What the hell?

Adèle: Why tell everyone we went to a gay bar? Why the fuck would you do that?

Valentin: It's not the end of the world...

Adèle: It is! They all think I'm a lesbian, eat pussy, and check out her ass!
Emma: Enjoying philosophy?

Adèle: [laughs] I love it. It's incredibly enriching. Very interesting. Very deep. Orgasm precedes essence.

Emma: Your grade better be good.

Adèle: Give me a grade.

Emma: Fourteen.

Adèle: Fourteen? Just fourteen?

Emma: [laughs] You still need some practice.

Adèle: I'll give it all I've got.
Emma: Something to say?

Adèle: I don't know.

Emma: What?

Adèle: I wanted to know, when was the first time you tasted...

Emma: Tasted a sausage?

Adèle: Tasted a girl.

Emma: A girl? You mean kiss or taste?

Adèle: [chuckles] Kiss. To start with, then we'll see.

Emma: I was fourteen. Sometime around then. There was a party, all the girls had guys. I went out with Louise - that was her name, Louise. We didn't kiss at the party, but... I invited her to sleep over. That's when we kissed.

Adèle: Have you always preferred girls?

Emma: I tried both. I dated guys, girls, and I realized I preferred girls. For sure.
Emma: What's your name?

Adèle: Adèle.

Emma: Pretty name, Adèle.

Emma: Adèle means something in Arabic. I think it means mmmm...

[thinking]

Emma: Sun.

Emma: [Adèle nodding] Hope.

Emma: [Adèle nodding] Love.

Adèle: [laughing] It means justice.
Emma: "Existence precedes essence."
Emma: Nothing happens by chance.
Mère Emma: Shall we toast?

[pauses]

Mère Emma: To love.

Emma: [laughing] To love.

Adèle: To love.

Mère Emma: Welcome Adèle.

Adèle: Big words. To love.

Mère Emma: Yes, to love, my love.

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Blue Is the Warmest Colour short comments

Missouri 2022-03-27 09:01:06

It's not surprising that the actors complained that the director wanted to press the camera to his face almost every second, and the filming method was obviously meant to squeeze people dry. If you simply shoot sex and desire, this form of crazy overdraft intimacy is very powerful and appropriate, but when it comes to discussing love and life... there is really no merit at all.
Effie 2022-03-29 09:01:02

The film presents all the details of ordinary life, such as eating, sex, conversation, class, crying, sleeping, etc., in a complete and natural way, forming a feast of naturalistic love stories. The close-up of almost all the shots on the actors not only enhances the naturalness, but also extends the emotion beyond the screen to the audience. The heroine with a serious role plays perfectly the dazed and timid young middle class facing unknown feelings and the upper world.