He gets more than he bargained for when his firm’s big Russian partner seems to be up to no good and Jack jets over to Moscow to investigate. Handsome and blue-eyed Chris Pine ( Star Trek) stars as the intrepid Jack, who is working undercover on Wall Street. The resulting spy caper, which shows the young Jack making the jump from CIA analyst to kick-ass field agent, is sleek but decidedly formulaic. Techno-thriller author Tom Clancy may have died, but his hero lives on in Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, an “origins” tale by two scriptwriters who are helping maintain the lucrative Clancy movie franchise. ( Blue Is The Warmest Color runs Tues.-Sat., Jan. Easily one of the best films of last year, Blue is must-see viewing for followers of serious cinema. Indeed, the performance by Exarchopoulos in particular is nothing less than extraordinary. It is a harsh snub for a film that is notably raw, authentic, honest, and intensely real. The film spans a decade and runs for three hours, but it never drags as Adele and Emma work through a passionate and emotional love affair where a difference in age and life experience ultimately presents challenges that can’t be kissed away.ĭespite being the big news at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival – the film’s director and the two female leads were, uniquely, all awarded the prestigious Palme d’Or – Blue was more recently ignored by the Golden Globes and received no Oscar nominations at all. But it’s the rapport between the two actors that is most memorable. From awkward “meeting the family” scenes to much later sequences where Adele has become a teacher, mundane reality is persuasively captured. Then she finds herself profoundly attracted to a 20-something woman named Emma (Lea Seydoux), a worldly art student with blue hair and a circle of bohemian friends.Īfter an initially diffident courtship the two fall madly in love and Blue proceeds to chronicle their day-to-day existence with a naturalism that gradually envelops the viewer. Newcomer Adele Exarchopoulos stars as a 15-year-old teenager also named Adele, an ordinary girl who feels “inauthentic” when she starts a relationship with a handsome boy at her school. Although some people who don’t often attend subtitled art films will be drawn to Blue Is The Warmest Color because of the notoriety surrounding its protracted and explicit sex scenes, they may be turned on by something rather different: immersion in one of the most affecting and emotionally resonant coming-of-age stories in recent years.

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