“Sometimes the sexual scenes lasted 5 continuous hours. I felt like a prostitute,” denounced Léa Seydoux about filming in an interview for The Daily Beast.
“The life of Adele“, the film directed by Abdellatif Kechiche, is one of the most important exponents of French cinema in the last decade. This did not prevent its premiere in 2013 from being full of controversies due to its number of sexual scenes and their duration throughout of his 180 minutes.
Several critics defended these explicit sequences and denied that they were pornography. However, no one would have imagined the poor conditions on the set that the protagonists, Léa Seydoux and Adèle Exarchopoulos, had to endure.
This was his hellish filming
In an interview with The Daily Beast, the actresses denounced that the director went too far during the recordings. “It was horrible. Kechiche is a genius, but he is tortured. We wanted to give everything we had, but sometimes there was manipulation, which is difficult to handle,” they said.
“We spent days filming with three cameras in a very small room. Sometimes the sexual scenes lasted five continuous hours. I felt like a prostitute”, Seydoux emphasized about the scenes as exhausting as they were painful.
Jul Maroh called the film macho
Adele Exarchopoulos and Lea Seydoux. Photo: Wild Bunch
“As a feminist and lesbian viewer, I cannot endorse the course that Kechiche took in these matters,” criticized Jul Maroh, the author of the novel that inspired the film. “The only people who didn’t laugh were the too-busy-partying kids who see an embodiment of their fantasies on screen,” she added.
The film “The life of Adèle” introduces us to the protagonist and the doubts about her sexuality. One night she unexpectedly meets and falls in love with Emma, a young woman with blue hair. Her relationship will show him the path of desire and maturity, but also the prejudices of family and friends.
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