Rees peppers in moments of Alike embracing her true feelings, brief flashes of freedom that hint at who she could be if she didn’t need to hide, but they also live alongside nerve-wracking reveals that drive home just how trapped she is. That’s a hard enough concept for even the most well-adjusted of teens to face, but for Alike, trapped by a restrictive family and pushed to conceal everything from her wardrobe to her taste in music, it feels nearly impossible. Her isolation grows (turns out, high school kids are awful), but her libido won’t be tamed - a strange mix that adds up to a risky, funny feature topped off by some big truths.ĭee Rees’ lauded feature debut (based on her short of the same name) is a revelatory look inside the fraught coming-of-age of Brooklyn teen Alike (Adepero Oduye), as she conceals her sexual desires - and, in many ways, her entire identity - as outside forces push her to be honest about what she wants. Alma’s life gets both worse and better when a popular peer pokes her with his penis at a casual gathering (romance!), and she refuses to let him live it down, alternately turned out and a little freaked out. When the film opens, Alma’s sexual awakening is already chugging right along, though it’s about as tragically amusing as it gets, punctuated by routine calls to a phone sex line and a mother who just doesn’t get it. Jannicke Systad Jacobsen’s Norwegian festival favorite doesn’t shy away from showing off just how gross, weird, and yes, horny as hell girls can be, too, all filtered through the experience of indomitable Alma (Helene Bergsholm). “Turn Me On, Dammit!” “Turn Me On, Dammit!”Īwkward, horny teens eager for sexual satisfaction are hardly underrepresented in the entertainment world - hello, sex comedies - but films that center on teenage girls and their kinkiest desires are still outliers.
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Sure, audiences may still flock to the film for its unbridled sex sequences, but there’s no scene more telling than Adele, stuffing her sauce-stained face full of spaghetti, bursting with new desires that have to be redirected somewhere. There’s no love quite like the first, and while Adele’s awakening isn’t just about sex, but also her sexuality, that her most formative of experiences comes at the hands of another woman is simply one facet of a highly relatable love story. Hormonally speaking, it’s essential that the film opens when Exarchopoulos’ Adele is still slogging through high school, all burning desires and deep boredom, the perfect time for her to meet and fall obsessively in love with the slightly older Emma. While “Blue” earned big buzz because of the obvious - its long-form sex scenes, alternately hot and totally exhausting - that only obscures the finer points that Kechiche and his ladies put on the ill-fated romance between Adele and Emma. Léa Seydoux: Intimacy Coordinator Couldn’t Help ‘Insane’ ‘Blue Is the Warmest Colour’ Production “Blue Is the Warmest Color” “ Blue Is the Warmest Color” Wild Bunch/Sundance SelectsĪbdellatif Kechiche’s rigorously erotic three-hour romance initially spawned Cannes walkouts before picking up the Palme d’Or, split three ways between Kechiche and his stars Adele Exarchopoulos and Lea Seydoux, proof of the level of dedication all three of them poured into a wild (read: maybe even nightmarish) shoot.
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