Tagged: Abdellatif Kechiche

Review: Blue Is The Warmest Color (2013) – Abdellatif Kechiche’s Neorealist Love Epic of Extreme Close-Ups and Delicious Spaghetti

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*Spoilers Ahoy!*
Adèle (Adèle Exarchopoulos) is a quiet and mysterious schoolgirl. She loves reading, eating and sleeping. One sunny day, as she’s on her way to a date, she crosses the coolest blue haired and blue jeans wearing girl in all of France (Léa Seydoux). Their eyes meet for the shortest time and it’s: Bam! Coup de foudre. Love at first sight. That night Adèle dreams of her hot blue lady. At first she tries to fight her instincts, but then it just becomes impossible to resist. After being rejected by her girl crush in school, she decides to go out to a gay bar with her BFF (Sandor Funtek). At this point she almost gave up hope of ever meeting her blue angel again, but as fate would have it, Emma just happens to be hanging out there. In a gay bar? Who would have thought!  Continue reading →

Cannes 2013 winners

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The 66th edition of the Cannes Film Festival has come to an end. Here are the winners.

Palme d’Or (Golden Palm):

Blue Is The Warmest Colour (La vie d’Adèle) directed by Abdellatif Kechiche
with actresses Adèle Exarchopoulos & Léa Seydoux

Grand Prix (Runner Up):
Inside Llweyn Davis directed by Ethan & Joel Coen

Best Director:
Amat Escalante for Heli

Jury Prize:
Like Father, Like Son directed by Hirokazu Koreeda

Best Screenplay:
Zhangke Jia for A Touch Of Sin

Camera d’Or (First-Time Filmmaker):
Ilo Ilo directed by Anthony Chen

Best Lead Actor:
Bruce Dern in Alexander Payne’s Nebraska

Best Leading Actress:
Bérénice Bejo in Asghar Farhadi’s The Past

Un Certain Regard

Un Certain Regard Prize:
The Missing Picture directed by Aida Begic

Special Jury Prize:
Omar directed by Hany Abu-Assad

Best Director:
Alain Guiraudie for Stranger by the Lake

A Certain Talent Prize:
Ensemble cast in The Golden Cage directed by Diego Quemada-Diez

Avenir Prize:
Fruitvale Station directed by Ryan Coogler

Congratulations to all the winners!

I look forward to checking all of those out.
I am especially pleased with Bruce Dern winning best actor for Alexander Payne’s new film Nebraska.

It’s not like I expected Sofia Coppola to win Un Certain Regard, I knew she had little to no chances, but it still would have been nice to see her getting some love. Hopefully the Academy will give her some gold.