Blue Is The Warmest Colour

Oct 24, 2013 Blue Is the Warmest Color has been mired in controversy from the beginning. Even before winning the Palme d’Or, the three-hour French lesbian love story was Cannes’ most buzzed-about film. Subscribe to TRAILERS: to COMING SOON: us on FACEBOOK: Is The Warmest Color Of. Blue Is the Warmest Color premieres at Cannes, receiving largely rave reviews (and a few audience walkouts). Yet early on there was criticism of the film’s anti-feminist tone.

Blue Is the Warmest Color (Le bleu est une couleur chaude)
Date	March 2010
Page count	160 pages
Publisher	Glénat
Creative team
Creator	Jul Maroh(credited as Julie Maroh)
Original publication
Date of publication	March 2010
Language	French
ISBN	978-2723467834
Translation
Publisher	Arsenal Pulp Press
Date	2013
ISBN	978-1551525143

Blue Is the Warmest Color (Le bleu est une couleur chaude, originally announced as Blue Angel) is a French graphic novel by Jul Maroh, published by Glénat in March 2010.^[1] The English-language edition was published by Arsenal Pulp Press in 2013. The novel tells a love story between two young women in France at the end of the 1990s. Abdelatif Kechiche directed a film adaptation in 2013, titled Blue Is the Warmest Colour, which was awarded the Palme d'Or at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.

Summary[edit]

The story takes place in France between the years of 1994 and 2008. After the death of her partner Clémentine, Emma goes to the home of Clémentine's parents, Daniel and Fabienne, in accordance with Clémentine's will, to request access to Clémentine's personal diary. Emma must face the hostility of Clémentine's father—somewhat off-set by Clémentine's welcoming mother. The story then follows Emma as she reads Clémentine's diary, which tells the whole story of the relationship between the two young women from Clémentine's teenage years and her first meeting with Emma to her untimely death.

In the beginning, Clémentine meets a boy, Thomas, who is a student in Terminale (final year of lycée, the French equivalent of senior high school or sixth-form college); they like each other, but soon afterwards, Clémentine becomes intrigued by a chance meeting with a blue-haired young woman on the arm of another woman named Sabine Decocq. For Clémentine, it is love at first sight. Unable to forget this encounter she starts to have doubts about her sexuality—but decides to date Thomas because she wants to feel normal. Six months later, however, Clémentine is unable to have sex with Thomas and breaks up with him. Feeling depressed, she is helped by one of her male friends, Valentin, to whom she confesses everything; Valentin tells her that he has already dated a boy, which Clémentine finds quite comforting.

One evening shortly thereafter, Valentin takes Clémentine to some gay bars. Clémentine sees the blue-haired young woman again with Sabine at a lesbian bar. The blue-haired girl comes to talk to Clémentine and introduces herself as Emma. The two keep in touch and become friends, while Clémentine secretly falls in love with Emma. Clémentine then has to face the gossip and homophobic taunts from some of her schoolmates when they hear that she and Emma were in a gay bar together. Some time later, while the relationship between Emma and Sabine has somewhat stalled (mainly because Sabine is often cheating on her), Clémentine eventually confides her feelings to Emma, who, in turn, says she is in love with her. The girls have sex and start an affair. Emma eventually finds the strength to break up with Sabine and starts living with Clémentine. One night, when the two young women spend the evening together at Clémentine's place, Emma walks into the kitchen completely naked to get a glass of milk and Clémentine's mother catches her. Clémentine's parents then find both of them nude in the bedroom and their reaction is violently hostile: Clémentine is thrown out of her home, along with Emma.

Clémentine then starts living at Emma's parents' place; the two women subsequently get a home of their own and live there happily for several years. Emma becomes an artist, while Clémentine becomes a teacher in high school. Emma starts to become politically involved and takes part in LGBT activism, while Clémentine prefers to keep her sexuality private. One day, Emma discovers that Clémentine cheated on her with a male colleague; she angrily breaks up with her and forcibly makes her leave. Clémentine, who has taken refuge at Valentin's place, becomes depressed and addicted to pills. Valentin ends up organising a meeting and leaves both women alone on a beach. Still in love with each other, they reconcile, but Clémentine is undone by her addiction to certain pills. Clémentine's addiction results in a seizure and she ends up at the hospital, where Emma discovers that she is not allowed access to her at first. Clémentine's parents and Emma eventually learn that it is too late to save her; the damage from her drug-taking is too great. Clémentine writes the final pages of her diary at the hospital, and then dies. As Emma reads the conclusion of the diary, she remembers that Clémentine urged her to continue living her life as she knows it.

History[edit]

Maroh started the comic at the age of 19, and took five years to complete it. The comic has been supported by the French Community of Belgium.^[1]

From 27 to 30 January 2011, this novel was promoted during the 2011 Angoulême International Comics Festival, where it is part of the official selection.^[2] During this festival, Blue Is the Warmest Color was awarded the Fnac-SNCF Essential prize, an award that was elected by the public.

Editions and translations[edit]

(in French) Julie Maroh, Le bleu est une couleur chaude, Glénat – Hors collection, 2010 ISBN978-2-7234-6783-4
Julie Maroh, Blue Is the Warmest Colour, Arsenal Pulp Press, 2013 ISBN978-1-55152-514-3
(in Spanish) Julie Maroh, El azul es un color cálido, Dibbuks [es], 2011 ISBN978-84-92902-44-6
(in Dutch) Julie Maroh, Blauw is een warme kleur, Glénat – Hors collection, 2011 ISBN978-90-6969-933-2
(in Portuguese) Julie Maroh, Azul é a cor mais quente, Editora Martins Fontes [pt] – Selo Martins, 2013 ISBN978-85-8063-125-8
(in Greek) Julie Maroh, Το Μπλε είναι το πιο Ζεστό Χρώμα, ΚΨΜ, 2013 ISBN978-96-0675-084-7
(in Swedish) Julie Maroh, Blå är den varmaste färgen, Nubeculis, 2015 ISBN978-91-6378-736-2

Awards[edit]

Prix Jeune Auteur at the Salon de la BD et des Arts Graphiques of Roubaix 2010
Prix Conseil Régional at the festival of Blois 2010^[1]
Fnac-SNCF Essential at the 2011 Angoulême International Comics Festival
Diplôme 'Isidor' of the website altersexualite.com^[3]
Prix BD des lycéens de la Guadeloupe^[4]
Prize of the best international album during the 4e Festival international de la BD d'Alger in 2011^[5]

Film adaptation[edit]

A film adaptation has been made by Abdelatif Kechiche, with Léa Seydoux and Adèle Exarchopoulos in the main roles, which was released in 2013^[6] under the title Blue Is the Warmest Colour. The film, as with the book, received overwhelming critical acclaim; it won several awards including the Palme d'Or at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.

While the first two thirds of the film are similar (albeit with Clémentine renamed 'Adèle'), the ending is different from the book, in which Adèle is still alive, and the two lovers split up due to what is strongly hinted to be irreconcilable differences between them.

References[edit]

^ ^a^b^cAurélia Vertaldi (21 January 2011). 'Moi, Clémentine, 15 ans, je vis pour les yeux d'Emma'. Le Figaro. Retrieved 17 June 2011.
^Angoulême 2011: la sélection officielleArchived May 2, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
^Critique du site altersexualite.com
^'Palmarès 2011 Prix BD des lycéens de la Guadeloupe '. Archived from the original on 2013-10-21. Retrieved 2013-05-31.
^Résultats des concours professionnels sur le site du festivalArchived 2013-10-21 at the Wayback Machine. Page consultée le 29 November 2011.
^Le Bleu est une couleur chaudeArchived July 23, 2013, at the Wayback Machine – Premiere.fr

External links[edit]

Le Bleu est une couleur chaude on Glénat
Blue Is the Warmest Color at Arsenal Pulp Press
Azul é a cor mais quente na Editora Martins Fontes – Selo Martins

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Adèle's life is changed when she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire, to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. In front of others, Adele grows, seeks herself, loses herself, finds herself.

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