Celebrated French filmmaker Abdellatif Kechiche’s latest,
based on Julie Maroh’s graphic novel, was the feeling of this year’s Cannes
Film Festival even before it was presented the Palme d’Or. Adèle Exarchopoulos
is a young woman whose longings and ecstasies and losses are charted across a
span of several years. Léa Seydoux (Midnight in Paris) is the older woman who animates
her desire and becomes the love of her life. Kechiche’s movie is, like the
films of John Cassavetes, an epic of emotional revolution that pulses with
gestures, embraces, furtive connections, and arias of joy and destruction. It
is a intensely moving hymn to both love and life. Release Date: 25 October 2013
