La Vie d'Adele

Les garçons et Guillaume, à table! Written and directed by Guillaume Gallienne France, 2013  In the final sequence of Les garçons et Guillaume, à table!, Guillaume Gallienne (who lived, wrote, directed, and acted the story) announces to his larger-than-life mother that he and his girlfriend are getting married. “To whom?” is the mother’s deadpan retort. …

In director Abdellatif Kechiche’s absorbing Blue is the Warmest Color Adele (newcomer Adèle Exarchopoulos) is a teenager whose growing pains are amplified by her attraction to women which she rightly sees as something a few of her classmates won’t be able to accept.