Sundance Selects’ domestic release of this year’s Palme D’Or winner, Blue is the Warmest Color, has just debuted a trailer.
Directed by Abdellatif Kechiche and written by Kechiche and Ghalya Lacroix, the film stars Lea Seydoux and Adèle Exarchopoulos and is planned to hit theaters with an NC-17 rating for “explicit sexual content.” Sundance Selects will release the film in theaters beginning on October 25, 2013, on the heels of a screening as part of the 2013 New York Film Festival.
Blue is the Warmest Color centers on a 15-year-old girl named Adèle (Exarchopoulos) who is climbing to adulthood and dreams of experiencing her first love. A handsome male classmate falls for her hard, but an unsettling erotic reverie upsets the romance before it begins. Adèle imagines that the mysterious, blue-haired girl she encountered in the street slips into her bed and possesses her with an overwhelming pleasure. That blue-haired girl is a confident older art student named Emma (Seydoux), who will soon enter Adèle’s life for real, making way for an intense and complicated love story that spans a decade and is touchingly universal in its depiction.
