But he likes to eat so much, Adele is not fat. Adele has long legs and wears skinny jeans. His figure is uneven and his youthful hormones can't stop him from blooming. Adele is a pretty ordinary high school girl in Lille, a city in northern France.
Of course, Adele is the leading actress of the French film "The Life of Adele" that won the Palme d'Or at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. There is also a gimmick in this movie that is widely controversial: the lesbian sex scenes, unobtrusively close to the surprising scale of the pornographic film.
But if you want to talk about this hot topic, you must first talk about the film's director, Abdellatif Kechiche (Abdellatif Kechiche), a descendant of French immigrants from North Africa, who won the French Caesar Award for best director twice.
According to his limited life introduction on the Internet, Abu Dai Kexixu was born in Tunis, a Mediterranean city in North Africa, and immigrated to Nice, France with his parents when he was six. Later became a screenwriter and director. Cauchyxu has produced five works in total. In addition to "Adele's Life", I also watched his 2007 "Millet and Mullet". It was a film that impressed me very much. It was about how to open a dream "Couscous" in the trough of life after Simon, an old Arab immigrant in southern France, was expelled from the shipyard where he had worked for 35 years. The story of the restaurant. The restaurant was opened on a rebuilt broken ship. After all the difficulties and hard work, an unexpected and huge accident happened on the night of the opening. Simon must do his best to find "Couscous", the restaurant's main couscous; while his lover's daughter Lim decides to perform belly dancing for the guests to buy time. Lim was young, round and plump, and had a small belly. She twisted her waist with long, prolonged sweating, and the little fat on her belly kept trembling in the close-up. Simon never came back, she had to jump down again and again like this, with the beauty of youth, sexiness, and the embarrassment of looking on the sidelines, but even more sad. There is also a long shot of Simon chasing a motorcycle in the movie, so cruel, calm, and hopeless, so that people's hearts are all pulled up, and tears can't help but fall.
Therefore, one of the characteristics of Cauchyxu's films is the calm observation of the characters, Bazin-like, Truffau style, no cover, no value judgment, and no retreat in the face of cruelty and embarrassment. The lens has a cruel penetrating power, hitting the soul of the character directly. This is a new wave of classic style.
Another technical feature is his mastery of rhythm. You should know that the biggest risk of using long mirrors and close-up shots is the destruction of the narrative rhythm itself, especially for a work that is still narrative, too frequent or improperly inserted long mirrors can easily slow down the narrative speed and lose the audience. Focus; trivial close-ups will make the picture cheap and narcissistic, turning the image into the director’s personal chatter rather than an emotional exchange with the audience. But the use of various stylized shots of Coxixu is just right. He uses a hand-held lens to express the speed of movement. The limited long shots mainly appear in the most impactful clips, increasing the intensity of the cruel life in the side view, close-up and mid-range are alternately played. The latter provides a focus frame and contextual contrast for the former.
Furthermore, it is his social class sensitivity. The cultural and ethnic background of North African immigrants made his observation of the class differentiation in French society extremely detailed. His first film "Voltaire's Mistakes" explored the survival of Tunisian illegal immigrants in Paris. The old Simon in "Milk and Mullet" is also an immigrant family. Even his last film "Black Venus", although the background is Europe in the early nineteenth century, Cochschul's perspective has always focused on the marginalized and enslaved lower classes of society.
So, to understand the controversial fragments in "The Life of Adele", I think we must also start with these characteristics of Cosyxu.
There are a total of four gay sex clips in the 3-hour movie, with a total duration of about 10 minutes. Among them, Adele and Emma’s first sexual experience lasted more than 6 minutes, which was the longest and most exposed. The next few games are getting shorter and shorter, and the two are going to have deeper emotional exchanges instead of mainly sexual agitation. This arrangement is consistent with the natural development of the relationship between the sexes in life. In the most important sex scene, Cauchy Xu used close-ups a lot, from Adele’s expression, lips breathing, tongue’s greed, to body distortions, touching gestures, entanglement of limbs, muscle spasms. The angle is switched to another angle, and it seems to have the same teasing and eager rhythm as the characters in it. There is no romantic background music in this section. What is shown on the screen is a very primitive sexual passion. The camera does not flinch and there is no taboo. Taking into account the technical characteristics of Cauchyxu, this arrangement is by no means a hype stunt, but a very important chapter for the enlightenment of Adele's life. Especially compared to the previous scene of the lack of passion between Adele and the boys at the same school, the temperature of sex with Emma is very important to the future trend of the relationship between the two.
The only thing I didn’t like was the second scene, where Adele and Emma went to Emma’s parents’ house to visit the sex scene when they fell asleep at night, because the staggered posture of the two people was too “stylized”, especially Adele turned his head to face In the camera, the hair is tied to one side, looking behind him at Emma, it is so visually beautiful. The real sex in life, regardless of men and women, in absolute privacy, will not care about the beauty of the angle of the camera. I even thought that true hotness and selflessness must have some "ugly" elements in it. Cauchyxu filmed same-sex sex from a male perspective. No matter how I look at this scene, I feel that the fantasy element exceeds the scale of true artistic representation, which is a failure.
But apart from sex, the movie shows more about the relationship between Adele and Emma. These two people come from completely different social classes: Adele's family belongs to the working class and has conservative values. Adele’s mother seems to be of Arab descent, and there were many second-generation Arab immigrants in her high school. The classmates participated in the parade together, and they played ethnic music with Arab characteristics. Everyone was concerned about equal rights and employment opportunities. , Education, wage levels and other basic issues of survival. Adele believes that people should use the knowledge provided from society to repay the society. Based on this, she believes that teacher work is her lifelong pursuit. Emma comes from a middle-class intellectual family and is open-minded. Emma studied art, read philosophy extensively, and her family and friends circled enthusiastically discussing views on a certain artist, comparison of human nature, culture, and spiritual world. In their view, work is only a means to help realize people's spiritual pursuits, and should not be the ultimate goal of people. At the reception after Emma's first solo exhibition, Adele's loneliness and confusion is a subtle manifestation of this class difference. This echoes before and after the "tragedy" preached in the second literary class of the film-"Tragedy is irresistible and cannot be escaped in any way. It explores things that are eternal and not limited by time. It concerns the mechanism of humans. And the inner." For Adele and Emma’s love, tragedy is the trend of the parabola of emotions that will inevitably fall. It comes from the huge difference in social background and class differences between the two, as well as the essential values caused by this difference. Drop. This difference runs through Adele's entire life growth in the movie.
In the relationship between Adele and Emma, Cauchyxu's shots are always calm and composed without making value judgments. But once he understands his social background, it is not difficult to see his own value orientation. The introduction of "The New Yorker" mentioned that Adele's life scenes were portrayed in the classroom to a considerable extent. Cauchyxu himself mentioned in the interview that the starting point of the film was that he wanted to describe the life of a teacher, their enthusiasm and devotion to education. In "Adele's Life", in addition to the relationship with Emma, Cosyxu also used a considerable amount of space to describe Adele's high school life before meeting Emma, her love of literature, and after she became a teacher Understanding of education, patience and focus on children. A good author should be neutral, calm, or even cruel in the execution of the details in the work, but after passing through the details, between the lines, the value orientation of an author is unnecessary and cannot be concealed by denial. Understand this point, it is not difficult to understand the series of confrontations between Cauchyxu and the cast and crew that broke out after the movie was released.
Going back to "The Life of Adele", I have never been a fan of romance stories. The story itself is nothing new. It can even be regarded as an old-fashioned love story. As cliché as life itself, the same story is played out over and over again every day and every minute; but like every similar story in life, different story objects will bring new things to the same story. Experience, perception. The great thing about Cauchyxu lies in the fact that he focused on the unique, profound, and unique beauty beyond life from a daily, natural and ordinary frame through the lens. He photographed the spiritual growth of the characters in the pulse of society, those details that are not modified and carefully cannot be said because of their preciousness, and those hidden deepest desires, helplessness and gray secrets.
As an audience, when you see some of the most fragile and precious things in the depths of people’s hearts, and when you experience these most tender and cruel growth experiences through images, you have to be struck by the richness of life itself and the power of the details of destiny. of.
The French title of the film is "The Life of Adele, Chapter One and Chapter Two". Every soul is a book. Thanks to Cochxu for opening Adele's good book. I was fortunate enough to read her and the self reflected in the book. The story behind is still very long. I will always miss this girl.
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