(I was 16.) I sat down to watch Personal Best, which starred Mariel Hemingway as an Olympic-bound athlete who falls for her lesbian teammate, to see what a lesbian existence might look like.
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I saw my first lesbian movie about 25 years ago, shortly after coming out to my best friend. Why would he turn to a homoerotic Charlton Heston vehicle, when there are several decades’ worth of Sapphic romance on celluloid available, directed by men and women, straight and gay, for reference?
As Judith Dry reports in her essay for Indiewire, when asked at a press conference which lesbian-directed films served as Blue’s forebears, Kechiche cited Ben-Hur. He is so focused on the mechanics of sex that he’s forgotten about the emotional aspects: banter, laughter, crying, anguish, fear, remorse. Which is to say, Kechiche, I fear, is not the man for the job. But is it authentic to the lesbian experience? It’s easy to wonder if the real question that Dargis and Maroh are posing is whether a male filmmaker can tell lesbian stories faithfully, without fetishizing the sex. In May, the day after Blue Is the Warmest Color won the Palme d’Or, graphic novelist Julie Maroh, who wrote the book from which the movie is adapted, called the movie “a brutal and surgical display, exuberant and cold, of so-called lesbian sex, which turns into porn.” Well, after seeing the film, this lesbian viewer will admit: In terms of what’s shown on-camera, it is unprecedented. Kechiche’s desires than anything else.”īut Dargis’s critiques weren’t the first and they certainly weren’t the harshest. The piece was an expansion upon her initial review from Cannes, in which she wrote, “ sleeps with her derrière prettily framed, the movie feels far more about Mr. Last weekend, New York Times critic Manohla Dargis took the film to task, airing concerns about the way Tunisian-French director Abdellatif Kechiche filmed the bodies of actresses Léa Seydoux and Adèle Exarchopoulos.
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Ever since Blue Is the Warmest Color was first screened at this summer’s Cannes Film Festival, tongues have wagged about the three-hour French movie’s explicit lesbian sex, including a centerpiece scene that runs a full seven minutes.
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