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Adèle
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Adèle
Date
2013
Description
Creator of the image: Abdellatif Kechiche (director)
Date of the image creation: 2013
Medium of the image: Film
Person depicted: Adèle Exarchopoulos as the fictional character Adèle
In the film Blue is the Warmest Colour (La Vie d'Adèle), French high-school student Adèle is beginning to explore her sexuality when she is swept away by Emma, a free-spirited artist. This still-frame captures a scene in their second proper meeting. It occurs after Emma appears outside Adèle’s school and suggests that they have a drink together. Ignoring the jeering calls from her friends, Adèle goes with her to a park. Sitting on a park-bench Emma proceeds to sketch a portrait of Adèle while they converse in the afternoon sunlight. This image is from that moment.
Midway through her portrait, Emma quotes Sartre: ‘The mysterious weakness of human faces’ (‘la mystérieuse faiblesse des visages d'hommes’). The scene ends with the trading of a phone number, the promise to call and a moment of unresolved sexual tension. The full quote is from Jean-Paul Sartre’s The Nausea (1938): ‘They had been painted very minutely; yet, under the brush, their countenances had been stripped of the mysterious weakness of human faces. Their faces, even the last powerful, were clear as porcelain: in vain I looked for some relation they could bear to trees and animals, to thoughts of earth or water. In life they evidently did not require it.’
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