Common to all, there are compatibility issues, inequality issues, friends issues, … they further reduce the chance of success especially one who is as green as a sprouting leaf. The film is a social study of classicism, emotions, fate, failure, goals, success, beaux arts, money, sexuality, experimentation, loneliness, and compatibility.įirst love is always hard, because no one has clear concept of the journey. One night with her best gay friend, Samir( Salim Kechiouche), they go to a gay bar, but she wanders off and ends up in a Dyke bar, where she sees the girl with blue hair…Being a new face, girls and women start to hit her up…Emma comes to the rescue, declares Adèle is her out-of-town cousin. Her first time is nothing compared to what she expected: her electrifying wet dream. Under peer pressure, she has sex with one of the seniors, a guy who has been flirting with her. In lycée, Adèle is shy, has her regular group of friends to hang out with talking about sex and guys. School, marriage, work and kids are the goals in life, and Adèle has already accepted her destiny, which is exactly how her parents want. Growing up in a middle-class family, Adèle’s life is predictable and her parents seem normal. A smile from Emma( Léa Seydoux) becomes Adèle’s enigma.
One of the students answers “Regret”, the “what could have been…”īuilding on the opening scene, Adèle( Adèle Exarchopoulos) experiences such an encounter one day while walking in a crowded street, a girl with blue hair passes her by, and they exchange glances. The question posed by the teacher is whether it will be a positive event or negative.
The opening scene starts with Adèle in her literature class, where her classmates read off passages from the novel, about love at first sight, and chance meeting. This film was almost three hours in length, it went through the life of Adèle from 15 to 21 or 22… hence, the title: chapter 1 and 2, like in a novel. La vie d’Adèle chapîtres 1 et 2 is adopted from the graphic novel Le bleu est une couleur chaude by Julie Maroh that’s why the English’s title, perhaps.