Comments on: ‘Blue Is The Warmest Color’ Author Julie Maroh Not Pleased With Graphic Sex In Film, Calls It “Porn”

By: GUEST

GUEST — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:48:57 +0000

Julie Maroh didn't write this to explain her concerns. She wrote this to calm down her fans who are worried about the "lose adaptation" of her graphic novel and about her non-visibility since the movie has been presented to the public. She explains that it was meant to be Kechiche's vision, that adaptation is not treason, that Kechiche performed a master stroke, that she may have liked some stuff to happen but she is still okay that it didn't, that Kechiche thanked her privately in Cannes … And among that, she discusses the thing she was bothered with as an audience member. Truth is Kechiche isn't a crowd pleaser. He will not go elliptic if he thinks there is an essential feeling/truth to dig in an "unconfortable" scene. There is a radicalism in that approach that isn't Maroh's.

By: S. Mell

S. Mell — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:48:57 +0000

Someone is ticked the movie is getting adoration and she stayed at home. Maroh has always been a bore and I found much of the book to be self-loathing. A few of my closest friends saw this. All three are lesbians. So I asked about the giggling. One said they heard one older man tittering a little, look around uncomfortably, and then continue watching. That was about it. There was immense at the end of the first lovemaking sequence. As for the sex, they said it felt like a woman having sex with a woman for the first time – all the joy of discovery and wanting to make love in every way as if there won't be a tomorrow. My friends say everyone afterwards was saying how well done those scenes were. My friends agreed and said it seemed very realistic with the acknowledgement, all sex has it's variations. Is sex with any two people the same. As for the movie, it is stripped of the book's more numbing plots. Less focus on politics, parents, etc. The director also removes the book's most annoying plot twist and changes another one from a tired concept into an expression of devastation. All the friends agreed the movie was far superior to the original in this regard. The last 25 minutes could draw tears from the biggest Grinch. Maroh is being shelled on the net from her grudge. We should remember that the changes from the book to the movie all make the movie stronger and she is not the first person to be hurt by that or feeling she was not invited to the process. Plenty of screenwriters have gone down that road.

By: good god

good god — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:48:57 +0000

I am sick of the idea that these 'men' are dissected, ironically, as much as she believes the sex was in this film. I can affirm, as having seen lesbian films directed by women, that no matter what, the sex will always be an odd thing to watch on film. Those who were quiet during the scenes probably weren't 'feasting their eyes'. They may have been embarrassed without resorting to laughter, or they might have been trying to take it seriously, or were thinking about the art of the scene as I'm sure they were aware they weren't watching porn. Porn is porn because the sex is strictly there in and of itself. According to the wide register of viewers, the sex stands as an act of character development. I'm sure anyone watching sex on screen with another person is going to make them cringe, especially when the person watching it wrote the original material. It sounds like the writer has more of an issue with her own displeasure of seeing her work performed by actual human beings, meaning sexual creatures, more than she does with the objective idea of the characters having sex. It just disheartens me that women see straight men and the male gaze as adhering to a groupthink bro-out when it comes to issues like sex and relationships regarding the opposite sex.

By: D.

D. — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:48:57 +0000

In other news it appears that the shooting was a complete nightmare for technicians working on the movie:
http://lemonde.fr/festival-de-cannes/article/2013/05/24/des-techniciens-racontent-le-tournage-de-la-vie-d-adele_3417150_766360.html

By: WTF

WTF — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:48:57 +0000

I really don't get it. Porn is characterized by extremes close-up of vaginas and penises amongst others things. This movie is surely very erotic but there is only one shot of full frontal nudity – and it's really in the spirit of Rosario Dawson in Trance. 3 minutes of women making love with a lot of noises, breathing, spanking and kissing is just inconvenient. It's a filmaker choice, that's all.

By: jp

jp — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:48:57 +0000

Seriously, love the site, but please start even reading your posts once before posting them:

"and Maroh is bit baffled why wasn't featured more prominently with the cast on the red carpet."