![]() But it’s really about a defining relationship, told from the point of view of one of its participants. Loosely based on a graphic novel, the film spans a brief but tumultuous period in Adèle’s life, from her last years of high school till some time later, when she is a twentysomething adult pursuing a career as a teacher. ‘High Tide’ Review: Gay Sex, Sadness, and Longing as an Undocumented Immigrant Faces the Future in Provincetown The wags among us might suggest that the 3-hour film overwhelmed us with its sheer length but truth be told we could have watched, or rather lived Adèle, as brought vividly and unforgettably to life by Adèle Exarchopolous (Cannes Best Actress winner or we’ll stage a picket) for hours more. And so it was with Abdellatif Kechiche’s “ Blue is the Warmest Color” which has been the most transportative, truthful and sublime movie experience of our Cannes to date. ![]() But occasionally, very rarely, we experience the cinema not of escape but of exploration in which the discoveries you make stay with you and become knitted into the fabric of your memory as surely as if you’d really been there, really done that. ![]() Of course for many movies that experience, of killing a mutant robot or whatever, may have evaporated before you’ve picked the last of the popcorn husks from between your teeth. Bear with us a second on this: basically to submerge yourself in a story well-told is a way to live out other lives within your own, and through those complex and magical processes of identification, to breathe and dream and feel things that your own short span might otherwise never afford you. Why do we watch movies? No, really, why is it? As close an answer as we’ve ever come to for our own, fairly evident obsession with what we consider the greatest storytelling medium humankind has ever developed, is well, that life is short.
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