Lesbian movie to open amid sex scene row
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A LESBIAN love movie that scooped best film at Cannes opens next week, but its Palme d’Or has been tarnished by a row between the director and his stars over the filming of its graphic sex scenes.
The three-hour-long “Blue is the Warmest Color” caused a sensation at this year’s Cannes film festival, making stars out of its lead actresses, Adele Exarchopoulos and Lea Seydoux.
The pair were all smiles on the French Riviera as they posed for photographs with the film’s French-Tunisian director, Abdellatif Kechiche.
Chairman of the jury Steven Spielberg hailed it as a “profound love story,” adding that the judges had been “absolutely spellbound” by the brilliance of the women’s performances and “the way the director ... let the characters breathe.”
But fast forward several months and the mood has soured, with bitter complaints from both actresses about Kechiche’s working methods.
In an interview published last month by US website The Daily Beast, Exarchopoulos said she was unprepared for the extent to which Kechiche required her to immerse herself in the role.
“Once we were on the shoot, I realized that he really wanted us to give him everything. Most people don’t even dare to ask the things that he did, and they’re more respectful,” she said.
Seydoux complained that a 10-minute sex scene in the film took a full “10 days to shoot.”
And both women complained about a fight scene.
“It was horrible. She (Seydoux) was hitting me so many times and (Kechiche) was screaming ‘Hit her! Hit her again!’” Exarchopoulos said.
With the film due for release in France next week, the pair again aired their complaints, with Seydoux telling TV magazine Telerama that filming was “horrible” and that the film should be released.
“For me, this film should not come out, it has been sullied too much. The Palme d’Or was only a brief moment of happiness, afterward I felt humiliated and dishonored ... (and) that I live like a curse,” she said.
Exarchopoulos told French television Kechiche was a “tortured genius” but his demands had harmed both actresses.
“He made us ill psychologically at times because he loves his actresses to let go and it’s hard to do,” she said.
Kechiche responded by saying he believes the comments show “a lack of respect for a metier that I regard as sacred.”
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