As for Kechiche’s directing the scene, Seydoux says, “Most people don’t even dare to ask the things that he did, and they’re more respectful-you get reassured during sex scenes, and they’re choreographed, which desexualizes the act.”īlue is the coming-of-age story of 15-year old high school student Adéle (Exarchopoulos), who meets the older Emma (Seydoux) at a nearby art college. Seydoux later admits that she felt “like a prostitute” when filming the highly explicit scenes. It wasn’t like, ‘OK, today we’re going to shoot the sex scene!’ It was 10 days.” It was also the first scene the actresses shot, when they barely knew each other. Seydoux feels they spent too much time filming that now-infamous seven minutes, “We spent 10 days on just that one scene. The scene in the novel takes place over four pages of the 160-page book, while the film version runs for seven of the total 179 minutes. He even posted an open letter titled, “To Those Who Wish to Destroy ‘La Vie d’Adele.’” After the Cannes’ film premiere, the film technicians union accused him of “moral harassment” and criticized his unreasonable, disorganized working methods.Īnd now Julie Maroh - the author of the 2010 French graphic novel upon which Blue is based - has spoken out against the film’s love scene, describing it as “a brutal and surgical display, exuberant and cold, of so-called lesbian sex, which turned into porn, and made me feel very ill at ease.” Kechiche, who won the Palme d’Or for this film, fired back, calling Seydoux “a spoiled child,” and claiming she cried in his arms in Cannes, so grateful to him for this noble role. The two lead actresses, Léa Seydoux and Adèle Exarchopoulos, have openly accused director Abdellatif Kechiche of being abusive and “horrible” on set, and said they would never work with him again. Read an exclusive interview with director Abdellatif Kechiche | Learn more about Kechiche’s filmmakingĪdding fuel to the fire is the very public feuding between the cast, the director and the crew. There has been endless chatter and controversy concerning the seven-minute love scene between two women in the French drama Blue is the Warmest Color, which opened in the U.S. A scene from Blue is the Warmest Color by Julie Maroh