La Vie D’adele

Centred on 15-year-old French high school cutie Adèle, La Vie d’Adele explicitly delves into the romantic trials and tribulations of a teenager wooed at first by a male chum before realizing that she’ll be far less blue with butch art student Emma.

To stick this film with the gratuitous ‘coming-of-age’ label is to sell Abdellatif Kechiche’s La Vie d’Adele severely short. Centred on 15-year-old French high school cutie Adèle, La Vie d’Adeleexplicitly delves into the romantic trials and tribulations of a teenager wooed at first by a male chum before realising that she’ll be far less blue with butch art student Emma. The film’s painstaking realism and astonishing acting have already landed the director in the midst of a flurry of controversy, but at least he’s got a Palm d’Or to show for it.

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